Average Laois house price up 15% on last year

ACCORDING to a report by Daft.ie, Ireland’s largest property website, the average price of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Co Laois in the final quarter of 2025 was €296,000, up 15% on a year ago.

The same report also states that the average list price nationally rose by an average of 5.5% during 2025, while the average price of a three-bed semi-detached home in the final quarter of the year was just over €423,000.

Listed prices are now, on average, 41 per cent above their pre-covid levels and just ten per cent below their celtic tiger peak, while supply shortages continue nationwide.

According to the report, analysis of transactions registered in the Property Price Register matched to the Daft.ie database, indicate that transaction prices rose 7.4 per cent during 2025.

The typical gap between the initial listed price and the ultimate transaction price has grown sharply since 2003 and, in late 2025, was 6.6 per cent nationally.

The report also outlines striking disparities between regions, with the lowest inflation again seen in Dublin, where prices were up 3.1 per cent year-on-year. In Connacht-Ulster, on the other hand, prices rose by 11.6 per cent during 2025.

The report suggests that, as has consistently been the case for over a decade, the increases in prices around the country stems from a lack of supply.

Ronan Lyons, professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin and author of the Daft.ie Report, said in his analysis that “despite the modest decline in the speed of increases, the market remains very tight.” The report states that on 1 December, there were just 11,551 secondhand homes for sale nationwide. While this is up seven per cent on the same date last year, availability is less than half the 2015-2019 average of 26,000.

Professor Lyons writes: “The price dynamics that we are seeing are merely a reflection, as ever, of the interaction between underlying demand and supply. Much commentary – including much of mine – focuses on the supply of newly-built homes. And this is, of course, important.

“The country requires, realistically, over 60,000 homes a year every year for decades to address the housing deficit built up over the last generation and to meet new housing requirements.

“But the secondhand market is still the dominant source of supply for homes to purchase … while in Dublin secondhand supply is almost back to 2019 levels, in Munster, it is still one-third below. Without supply, healthier conditions – more stable prices will still be out of reach.” The average price of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Leinster, excluding Dublin and rounded to the nearest thousand, was €363,000, while list prices on average were 7.3 per cent higher than a year ago.

Speaking to the Laois Nationalist, professor Lyons said that three-bedroom semi-detached houses make up the single largest segment of the market in Laois, about one-quarter of all listings, but the mix of three-bed semi-detached houses in the county may vary between one year and the next.

He said: “On a like-for-like basis, prices in the county rose by 7.5 per cent during the year, which would put it above Dublin and the other cities but on a par with many of its neighbours.

“Overall, the strong price increases reflect very tight supply as well as ongoing strong demand, especially as people continue to take advantage of greater ability for remote or hybrid working.”