Cork sold prices by area 2026: city, harbour and county towns

On the Property Price Register, Cork means County Cork. Sales in Bishopstown, Cobh and Skibbereen are all filed under one county, so this is a table of places that share a county, not a ranking of the city. The county page shows a median of €307,500 for 14 August 2021 to 14 August 2026, across 21,913 sales. That figure is the median of the area medians across every area with data. It is not the median of all sales.

The table lists the 60 busiest places. Each median is the middle of the sales recorded there in the window, from the register as it stood on 14 August 2026. Inmoatlas leaves out sales the register marks as not at full market price.

From €442,500 to €186,250 inside one county

Fourteen of the 60 places show how wide the range is. They are our editorial pick, listed from the highest median to the lowest.

The highest and lowest medians in the whole table are both Cork city districts: Ballintemple at €442,500 and Blackpool at €186,250. That is a gap of about 2.4 times inside the city, before any comparison with the county towns. The table stops at the 60 busiest places, and quieter places are not listed.

Douglas shows what a large, busy sample looks like. Its median is €400,000 over 846 sales, and it is the third busiest place in the table. The row labelled Cork City, with 261 sales at €288,000, is a locality label taken from address text. It is not the sum of the city's districts, which have their own rows.

Cobh, Crosshaven and Midleton

Cobh and Crosshaven both sit on Cork Harbour and sit far apart on price. Cobh has a median of €280,000 over 639 sales. Crosshaven is at €368,700 over 213 sales, €88,700 higher. Midleton, in east Cork and busier than either, sits between them at €331,000. Its 1,117 sales are the most of any place in the whole Cork table.

The register cannot say why Cobh and Crosshaven differ. It records price and address, with no size, no bedroom count and no condition. All the table shows is that the middle sale in each place sits at those two levels. Which streets drive the gap needs a street-level look, not a town-level one.

When the median is a VAT-exclusive price

The register states that the price of a new property should be exclusive of VAT at 13.5%, so a new home reads lower than the buyer paid. If a place's median is a new-build price, there is a way to spot it. Multiply the median by 1.135 and see whether the result lands within a couple of euro of a multiple of €5,000. A round figure after the multiplication points to a price that was set round and then filed without VAT.

Twelve of the 60 places pass that test, far more than chance would give. Six of them:

The register flags new dwellings row by row, but these area medians do not separate them, so the test is an inference about the median sale. It does not mean these places are mostly new builds, only that the middle sale in each looks like one. Where that is so, the median shown understates what the typical buyer paid. The full rule is in new build or second hand on the register.

Reading the spread across the county

Ten of the 60 places have a median of €400,000 or more, and none reaches €500,000. Thirty-nine are at €300,000 or above, which leaves 21 below it. The five lowest are Blackpool (€186,250), Charleville (€195,000), Kanturk (€205,000), Dunmanway (€215,000) and Bantry (€220,000).

In the middle, Midleton at €331,000, Carrigaline at €345,000 and Glanmire at €350,000 are within €20,000 of each other. Mallow (€260,000), Fermoy (€260,500) and Youghal (€230,000) form a lower band. A comparison across those bands is a comparison between different price levels, so choose comparables from the same place.

Thin samples at both ends

Many Cork places rest on few sales. In the full table below, 28 of the 60 have fewer than 150 sales in five years and 15 have fewer than 100. The smallest is Ballinlough with 81. Ballintemple, which heads the table, has 92 sales, roughly 18 a year, so one or two unusual sales can move its median.

The places that rest on more than 500 sales, such as Midleton, Mallow (886 sales, €260,000), Carrigaline (752) and Glanmire (659), give a steadier picture. Treat the thin rows as a pointer and check the individual sales behind them.

The window starts in August 2021, so the oldest sales behind each median are five years old. Read a place median as a level for the whole window, and look at the recent sales on the place page before treating it as today's price.

The full Cork table

Together these 60 places cover 15,372 of the 21,913 sales behind the county page, and the smallest of them, Ballinlough, has 81 sales.

Checking one town against its streets

Take Cobh, with 639 sales at €280,000. On its page, the Streets in Cobh list shows which roads make up that figure, and the latest recorded sales table shows what has gone through recently. Look for a road with several sales of similar houses, then set it against the town median. To search a road directly, use the street search box on the Cork sold prices page.

To confirm a single sale you intend to rely on, search the official source at propertypriceregister.ie. It is compiled from stamp duty returns, so it shows the consideration filed, which for a new home excludes VAT. Revenue sets out the same basis on its consideration page.

See Cork sold prices by area