{"id":510579,"date":"2026-06-21T04:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510579\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:18:29","slug":"annual-house-price-growth-eases-to-6-2-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510579\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual house price growth eases to 6.2% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures from the Central Statistics office show that annual residential property price inflation eased to 6.2% in April from 6.7% in March.<\/p>\n<p>This marked the lowest growth rate since February 2024, when the annual increase was also 6.2%, the CSO noted.<\/p>\n<p>In Dublin, residential property prices rose by 5.4%, while residential property prices outside Dublin were 6.9% higher in April of this year compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s figures show that in the 12 months to April house prices in Dublin rose by 4.8% while apartment prices increased by 7.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The highest house price growth in Dublin was in D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown at 5.9% while Fingal saw a rise of 3.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Dublin, house prices were up by 6.6% and apartment prices rose by 9.7%.<\/p>\n<p>The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest growth in house prices was the Midlands (Laois, Longford, Offaly, and Westmeath) at 12.5%, while at the other end of the scale, the South-West (Cork and Kerry) saw a rise of 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s CSO figures show that the median price of a home purchased in the 12 months to April was \u20ac394,980.<\/p>\n<p>The highest median price for a home in April was \u20ac685,750 in D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest median price was \u20ac197,000 in Longford.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the most expensive Eircode area in April was A94 (Blackrock, Dublin) with a median price of \u20ac845,000, while F45 (Castlerea, Roscommon) had the cheapest median price of \u20ac155,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graph of housing price increases for the different areas of the country\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/002488dc-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The CSO said that a total of 3,741 home purchases were filed with the Revenue Commissioners in April 2026, a decrease of 0.2% when compared with the 3,748 purchases filed the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of transactions filed in April 2026 was \u20ac1.63 billion. This was made up of 2,763 existing homes with a value of \u20ac1.14 billion, and 978 new dwellings with a value of \u20ac487.2m, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s figures show that property prices nationally have increased by 179.2% from their trough in early 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin residential property prices have risen by 172.7% from their February 2012 low, while residential property prices in the Rest of Ireland are 194.4% higher than at their trough in May 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures from the Central Statistics office show that annual residential property price inflation eased to 6.2% in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-510579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}