Dublin sold prices by area 2026: Property Price Register medians

Among the 60 busiest areas of County Dublin, the five-year median sale price on the Property Price Register runs from €975,000 in Ranelagh down to €295,000 in Balbriggan. The county page shows a headline of €410,000 across 70,560 sales, but that headline is the median of the area medians across every area with data. It is not the median of all sales.

Each area figure below is the median of the sales recorded for that area between 14 August 2021 and 14 August 2026, taken from the register as it stood on the last of those dates. The register dates a sale by the deed that transferred ownership. The prices are sale prices as filed, not asking prices and not valuations. Inmoatlas leaves out sales the register marks as not at full market price, prices under €20,000 or over €20 million, and filings whose address shows a range of units or a unit count.

Dublin areas ranked by median sold price

The smallest of these 60 areas, Cabra, still rests on 367 sales. Together they account for 44,301 of the 70,560 sales behind the county page. The other 26,259 sit in smaller areas that are not in this table and are not ranked here. Areas are localities read from the address text typed by the filing solicitor, so a few roads will land under a neighbouring name or under none.

The dearest and the cheapest of the 60 busiest areas

The five highest medians are Ranelagh at €975,000, Sandymount at €900,000, Foxrock at €887,500, Ballsbridge at €883,029 and Dalkey at €807,500. Blackrock follows at €805,000, which makes six areas at €800,000 or more. Twenty of the 60 reach €600,000.

At the other end, Balbriggan is lowest at €295,000, then Finglas at €305,000, Ballyfermot at €308,000, Clondalkin at €325,000 and Blanchardstown at €326,000. Balbriggan is the only one of the 60 under €300,000. Sixteen of the 60 sit below €400,000.

Within this table the top median is about 3.3 times the bottom one, a gap of €680,000. The cheap end is not a small-sample effect: Balbriggan has 1,200 recorded sales, more than any of the five dearest areas. Smaller areas outside the 60 are not ranked here and can sit above or below these figures.

A note on the middle. The median of these 60 area figures is about €472,000. The county page shows €410,000 because it takes the median of area medians across every area with data, small ones included. The two figures answer different questions, and neither is the median of all 70,560 sales.

Where the sales actually happen

The busiest areas are Lucan with 2,389 sales (median €425,000), Swords with 2,306 (€396,250), Tallaght with 1,766 (€327,000), Clondalkin with 1,544 (€325,000) and Rathfarnham with 1,446 (€617,000). Those five make up 9,451 sales, about a fifth of the 44,301 in the table.

Volume and price are not the same ranking. The five dearest areas together recorded 2,570 sales, about 180 more than Lucan alone. Ranelagh's 483 sales over five years are about a fifth of Lucan's 2,389, so fewer sales sit behind its median.

The coast, north and south

Several of the table's coastal places can be read as two groups. South of the city, Sandymount (€900,000), Dalkey (€807,500), Blackrock (€805,000), Dun Laoghaire (€630,000), Killiney (€528,856) and Shankill (€515,418) all sit above €500,000.

The north coast is far more varied. Clontarf is at €700,441, Malahide at €675,500, Sutton at €620,000, Portmarnock at €600,000, Skerries at €477,200, Baldoyle at €441,000, Donabate at €440,088, Rush at €385,000 and Balbriggan at €295,000. The register records no house type or size, so it cannot show how much of this is location and how much is the housing stock.

Inland, the west of the county clusters tightly. Clondalkin (€325,000), Tallaght (€327,000), Blanchardstown (€326,000) and Saggart (€330,000) sit within €5,000 of each other, while Castleknock reaches €506,607.

What a five-year median hides

A median is one number for a mixed bag. Three things are folded into every row of the table.

New builds are filed without VAT. 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. You can often see it in the figures. Multiply an area median by 1.135 and check whether the result lands within a couple of euro of a multiple of €5,000. Leopardstown's €643,172 becomes €730,000. Hollystown and Adamstown (both €418,502) become €475,000, and Lusk (€409,691) and Clonburris (€409,692) become €465,000. Clontarf (€700,441), Castleknock (€506,607), Shankill (€515,418) and Kinsealy (€475,771) also land on round figures once VAT is added back.

The register does flag new dwellings and VAT-exclusive prices on each row, but the area medians here do not separate those sales, so this is an inference about the median sale. A coincidence this exact is unlikely. Where the middle sale in an area is a new-build price, the median shown is lower than what the typical buyer handed over. For Leopardstown the gap would be about €87,000. How the rule works is set out in new build or second hand on the register, and the filing basis is on the Revenue consideration page.

House types are mixed. The register has no floor area and no bedroom count, so a median blends apartments, terraces and detached houses in whatever proportion they sold. An area with many apartments can read cheaper than its houses are worth, and the reverse.

Old sales weigh as much as new ones. A sale from August 2021 counts the same as one from August 2026, so the table gives a level over five years. It says nothing about direction or about where an area stands today.

From an area to a street

An area median tells you which part of Dublin to look at. It does not tell you what a particular road makes.

1. Open the Dublin sold prices page and type a road into the street search box if you already have one in mind.
2. Otherwise pick an area from the list. Each area page has a list headed Streets in, followed by the area name, and a table of the latest recorded sales.
3. Compare three or four sales on the same road, and separate new homes from second-hand ones before reading any average.
4. Confirm any single sale you plan to rely on at propertypriceregister.ie, the official source, where each row shows the date of sale and the address as filed.

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