Property Price Register not working? What to check before you give up

When the Property Price Register "does not work", the site is usually up and the search is doing what it was built to do. It just does not behave the way a property portal does. This article records what we saw when we tested the official search at propertypriceregister.ie on 14 October 2026, and what to try. Site behaviour can change, so treat every test result below as a snapshot of that day.

We have no source for any outage and we are not claiming one. On the day we checked, the search page, the download page and the results all loaded and returned data, and the page showed the register as last updated on 14 October 2026. If the site will not load for you at all, the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA) lists an email address, info@psr.ie, and a freephone number, 1800-252712, on the pages we saw.

What the official search offers

The search form has five fields: an address box, a county, a year, a start month and an end month. A button labelled Perform Search runs it. There is no map, no street picker and no price filter. The results table shows three columns: date of sale, price and address. Clicking an address opens a record page with more detail. The record we opened showed Not Full Market Price, VAT Exclusive, Description of Property (second-hand or new) and Property Size Desc., which was blank. It had no floor area and no number of rooms.

The home page puts an Information Note in front of the Search and Download buttons, and it is worth reading, because much of what looks like a fault is explained there.

• The register is not meant to be a price index.
• A small number of prices are marked ** as not full market price.
• A new property is shown exclusive of VAT at 13.5%.
• Where a number of apartments are sold for a single price, what you see depends on what the filer put on the return.
• The Date of Sale is the date the filer input as the date of the deed.

The Information Note also says the PSRA does not edit the data, so a typing mistake by the filer stays on the register.

How the address match behaved in our tests

The address box is free text and the page gives no rules for it, so we tested it. In Galway, with the year set to 2025, this is what came back.

• Case did not matter: knocknacarra and KNOCKNACARRA returned the same 90 rows.
• Any fragment of the text matched, not only the start: nacarra returned the same 90 rows as Knocknacarra.
• Word order did not matter: Clybaun Road and Road Clybaun both returned 20 rows.
• A misspelling found only the filers who made it: Knocknacara returned 3 rows, against 90 for the usual spelling.
• Spaces and apostrophes that were not in the filed text found nothing: Salt Hill returned no rows where Salthill returned 86, and Taylor's Hill returned none where Taylors Hill returned 11.

The match is on the text as typed, which is why a sensible search can come back empty. Someone typed each address when filing the stamp duty return, and nobody standardised it afterwards. The apostrophe result also depends on the year box. With the year left blank, Taylor's Hill in Galway returned 18 rows, because some filers did type it that way, against 233 for Taylors Hill.

Short fragments match more than you expect

Because any fragment matches, a short one pulls in unrelated words. With the year set to 2025 and the months to January to March, a search for Rd in Galway returned 108 rows. Forty-three of them had no standalone Rd in the address; they were things like Ard Raithni and Ard Mhuire, where the letters rd sit inside another word. Road returned 41 rows for the same months. Abbreviations split the data too: with the year set to 2025, Clybaun Rd returned 19 rows and Clybaun Road returned 20.

So try both forms, Road and Rd, Street and St, and read the results rather than just counting them.

The year box, the county box and the 250 row ceiling

In our tests, neither Year nor County had to be filled in. With an address and no year, the search covered every year from 2010 to 2026 and ignored the month boxes. Clybaun Road in Galway returned 20 rows with the year set to 2025 and 216 with it blank. Kilfinane in Limerick returned 227 with the year blank. Leaving the county blank worked too: Clybaun Road returned 217 rows. A county with no address returned 250 rows, newest first.

That number matters. Broad searches stopped at 250 rows in our tests. For Galway in 2025, January alone returned 129 rows, February 188 and March 160, which is 477 between them. Yet a search for January to March returned exactly 250. A full year for Dublin or Limerick also returned exactly 250. We saw no message saying the list had been cut, so it is easy to take 250 rows for the whole answer.

Other behaviour we saw:

• With a year chosen and an end month earlier than the start month, we got an empty table with no hint of the cause.
• With the address, county and year all blank, we also got an empty table.
• The page offers 25, 50, 100, 250 or 1000 rows per page, but sorting and in-table search are switched off in the page's own script, so you cannot re-sort by price.

Symptoms, likely causes and what to try

Downloads: by county, year and month

If you want every sale for a place and not a search result, use the download page. It asks for a county, a year and a month, and all three are required. The county list has an All Counties option and the month list has All Months. Submitting the form returned a link to a file named for the choice, for example PPR-2025-Galway.csv, which the server listed at about 376 kilobytes.

The home page also links a whole-register file called PPR-ALL.zip. On 14 October 2026 the server listed it at 19,209,605 bytes, about 19.2 megabytes. We did not open the files, so we cannot say how many columns they hold or how they behave in a spreadsheet. A county file is the practical route when a search hits the 250 row ceiling.

Searching by area or road on Inmoatlas instead

Inmoatlas reads the same register and groups it by area. The Irish sold prices page links the four counties we cover: Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick. Each county page has a street search box and a table of areas with their sale counts and medians. The area pages show a latest recorded sales table and a list of links to the streets in that area.

There are limits here too. Each area is a locality read from the address text, so one place may appear under two spellings, and the county pages list only the 60 busiest areas. Inmoatlas counts will not match a count from the official search, because it leaves out rows flagged as not full market price, prices under €20,000 or over €20 million, and filings that cover several units. It saves you the 250 row ceiling. It does not fix a sale that was never filed or was filed with a different address.

When the sale is missing for a real reason

Some sales are not where you expect them because of how the register is built, not because the search failed. The PSRA says a part-residential property carries only its residential portion. A multi-unit sale may sit under one address. A very recent sale may not be filed yet; how long a sale takes to appear sets out the usual delays. If you find an error, the PSRA's note says the owner should ask the person who filed the return to send an amended return to Revenue, and that other errors can be reported to info@psr.ie.

Browse Irish sold prices by county and area

Sources: the Residential Property Price Register and its Information Note, published by the Property Services Regulatory Authority. Search behaviour was tested by us on 14 October 2026 and may change.