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These are the most expensive places to buy a home outside Dublin by Eircode

The CSO’s latest residential property price index shows an annual increase of 9.6% in the cost of homes in Ireland.

THE CSO HAS published its property price index for March 2017. Following on trend for the last few years, the price of housing in Ireland continues to rise.

In the year to March, residential property prices increased by 9.6%. House prices in Dublin for this period were up 8.2%, and 11.8% higher in the rest of the country.

The CSO also provided a breakdown of the average cost of a house or apartment by Eircode, with Dublin postcodes predictably the most expensive in the country.

Outside of Dublin, the most expensive places to buy were Greystones, Bray and Kinsale.

At the other end of the spectrum, the least expensive Eircode area in which to buy a home was Castlerea, Clones and Ballyhaunis.

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Breakdown

The most expensive place in the country to purchase a residential property was Dublin 6, which includes Ranelagh, Rathmines and Milltown.

The average price here is €726,508.

Next is Dublin 4, encompassing the likes of Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and Ringsend, where the average price is €709,567.

In third is the Eircode for Blackrock, where the average price is €650,219.

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The least expensive place to buy a property in the capital was Dublin 10. The average cost here is €171,889.

House prices in Bray and Greystones, in fact, were far higher than some parts of Dublin, at an average of €366,670 and €405,100 respectively.

Outside of Leinster, no Eircode area has an average price exceeding €300,000 with the exception of Kinsale, Co Cork.

The average price here is €347,341.

At the other end of the spectrum, average house prices dip below €100,000 in numerous areas in Ulster, Connacht and Ulster.

Castlerea in Co Roscommon has the lowest prices in the country, with an average of €68,831.

The next lowest is Clones, Co Monaghan at €79,432, followed by Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo.

Surge

Since house prices flatlined in 2013, there has been a surge nationwide in the cost of homes with the average cost increasing 50.4%.

Prices in Dublin in this time have risen a whopping 67.6%, while the rest of Ireland has risen by 46.3%.

In the past year, only the area of Fingal recorded modest growth in house prices with a rise of 2.2%.

Read: Irish house prices are up by a huge 11% – and more rises could be on the way

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    Mute Donncha Ó Coileáin
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    May 12th 2017, 3:46 PM

    Wouldn’t average price per square metre be a bit more comparable? There would be a huge amount of apartments for high prices in Dublin or Cork, whereas you could buy a ranch-style house in some parts for close to nothing in comparison.

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    May 12th 2017, 3:57 PM

    @Donncha Ó Coileáin: no, because it’s location location location.

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    May 12th 2017, 4:07 PM

    @Donncha Ó Coileáin: The first thing I thought was that there’s something majorly wrong when a small town on the south coast is more expensive than anywhere in Cork city. But then I had closer look at the map and saw how cork city and county is represented. “Kinsale” itself is actually just a large block of land of South county cork. While Dublin gets the full break down treatment of each neighbourhood, Cork city is in fact not represented at all. The city is just randomly split in two and then each half attached to a large area of surrounding countryside. I mean there are parts of cork city (and Galway city also) that are way more expensive than areas such as greystones and Kildare etc. Just goes to show how data/information can be mis-represented

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    May 12th 2017, 4:18 PM

    @An_Beal_Bocht: half a mill wouldn’t get you squatting rights in the likes of Blackrock, Rochestown, Montenotte, Douglas etc

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    May 12th 2017, 4:18 PM

    @Donncha Ó Coileáin: House prices are related to available employment around the country. The map is really showing up the border regions as being economic blackspots.

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    May 12th 2017, 4:30 PM

    @Donncha Ó Coileáin: Median Price would also be more useful than Mean. The Mean can get thrown out by a handful of very expensive property sales.

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    Mute Colm O'Sullivan
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    May 12th 2017, 4:30 PM

    @An_Beal_Bocht: Houses in Douglas for sale on Daft starting at 245k. It’s Douglas not Dublin 4.

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    May 12th 2017, 4:35 PM

    @Colm O’Sullivan: starting at is not the mean

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    May 12th 2017, 4:39 PM

    @Chris Kirk: Get rid of the border then

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    Mute Darren Byrne
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    May 12th 2017, 5:29 PM

    @An_Beal_Bocht: firstly its by eircode so its not randomly split. And secondly there are areas in Greystones that are council estates along with Areas where the average price would be 2 milllion. Its been split by an easily available system get over it. Sure Bono lives less than 2k from council estates, guess what the average houseprice is around there.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    May 13th 2017, 2:17 AM

    @Chris Mansfield: Exactly.

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    Mute Matty kinevan
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    May 12th 2017, 3:46 PM

    Wow! Very cheap up in the six counties!

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    May 12th 2017, 11:01 PM

    @Matty kinevan: why would you need data up there? You emigrating?

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    May 12th 2017, 4:22 PM

    Younger ​Citzens will have a hard time buying property.

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    Mute An_Beal_Bocht
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    May 12th 2017, 4:41 PM

    @Donnchadh Cassin: that’s been the case for the last 30 years, and purposely so, wait til interest rates increase then the fun will really start

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    May 12th 2017, 6:59 PM

    @Donnchadh Cassin: nah. It’s just a tax on the young. A transfer of wealth from younger productive workers to the old.

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    Mute eastsmer #IRExit
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    May 12th 2017, 4:19 PM

    What’s an ‘eircode’ and how do I put one in to my GPS

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    May 12th 2017, 4:26 PM

    @eastsmer #IRExit: Put it into google maps, it’ll bring you straight to your door.

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    May 12th 2017, 6:18 PM

    @eastsmer #IRExit: tried it. Two letters with a postcode both delivered to a different neighbours house. They are not in sequence so it is easy for an error to occur.

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    May 12th 2017, 5:48 PM

    What’s the size of these houses? While there are some very expensive houses in Kinsale, detatched overlooking the harbour. Must houses there would be cheap. Why not give the price per square foot/metre. So is the money in my bank account being lent to some poor guy having to 500k for a semi on the south side of Dublin. How thick are we as a nation to make the same mistakes again.

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    May 12th 2017, 6:21 PM

    Taken by a sample of 8 people who know own their eircode

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    May 12th 2017, 3:37 PM

    House

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    May 12th 2017, 3:44 PM

    @Sean: Now I’m confused. They say house, home, and property interchangeably. Does this index include apartments, duplexes, condos?

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    May 12th 2017, 5:06 PM

    F off with yer property porn.

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    Mute Gerry Carroll
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    May 13th 2017, 5:56 AM

    Eircode – along with electronic voting machines and water meters, another classic waste of public money. Remember all the statements of support, integrity, essential need for the voting machines that went on for years before it was decided eventually politically expedient to scrap them? Same crap with Eircode which was ‘selected’ despite better, more logical and flexible future-proofed systems available. Wonder where the brown envelopes ended up.

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    May 13th 2017, 3:46 AM

    What has eir code to do with property?

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    May 12th 2017, 8:26 PM

    Trains. loads of em.

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    May 13th 2017, 11:27 AM

    I had to move to Mayo because I couldn’t afford a 9 bedroom house for my family in Galway that I could afford. Pity

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    May 12th 2017, 11:29 PM

    What are prices like in Belfast?

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