What the register records
Three things per sale: the date of sale, the price and the address. The PSRA publishes them under section 86 of the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011, and the entries come straight from the stamp duty returns that buyers’ solicitors file with the Revenue Commissioners. Each entry also says whether the home was new or second-hand, and whether the price was full market value.
The date is the date the filer entered as the date of the deed transferring ownership, not the day the sale was agreed or the keys were handed over. The price is what the buyer declared for stamp duty. For a new home the register price is shown exclusive of VAT at 13.5%, so a new build listed at €300,000 cost the buyer about €340,500.
What it does not show
The PSRA is blunt about this: there are no further particulars. No floor area, no number of bedrooms, no property type beyond new or second-hand, no photos, no BER. The register is not meant to be a price index either. It is a list of transactions, and a few of those transactions are odd:
- Not full market price. Entries marked ** were declared as below market value, for example a transfer between relatives, a part-share, or a sale with a sitting tenant. We exclude them from medians.
- Mixed-use buildings. For living quarters over a shop, only the residential part is recorded.
- Blocks bought in one go. When fifteen apartments sell for one price, the register may show one apartment at the full price, fifteen entries at a fifteenth each, or one entry naming all fifteen, depending on how the return was filed.
- Typing errors. Addresses and prices are typed by the person doing the conveyancing. The PSRA publishes them as filed and does not edit them, so a missing zero or a misspelt townland stays until an amended return is filed.
Eircodes are a recent addition. Older entries have none, which is why address searches on the official site can be hit and miss. On our map, sales without an Eircode sit at the centre of their estate or street, drawn paler.
How to search the Property Price Register
The official search at propertypriceregister.ie takes an address fragment, a county, a year and a start and end month. Results come back as a table, and the whole register can be downloaded as a CSV. It works, but it has no map, no medians and no way to see a street at a glance. Three faster routes on this site:
- One house. Type the Eircode into the search box above. If the home sold since Eircodes were added to the register, you land on its page with every recorded sale. For older sales, open the town page and type the street into the sales table.
- A town or a Dublin district. Every place with 20 or more sales has its own page: median by year, the busiest estates, nearby towns and the full list. Start from the county list or a county hub such as Dublin, Cork or Galway.
- What sold this week. The latest sales page shows the newest 400 register entries grouped by day, or set a free email alert for a town or an Eircode radius.
How fast a sale appears
Revenue requires the stamp duty return within 44 days of the date the deed is executed. File later and a surcharge applies: 5% of the duty after 44 days, 10% after 92 days. Most solicitors file inside the window, so a sale that closes today is typically on the register three to six weeks later, and the newest month on any chart is always incomplete. The PSRA updates the register on a rolling basis; we refresh this site from it every week.
Register or price index?
They answer different questions. The register tells you what number 12 sold for. The CSO’s Residential Property Price Index uses the same stamp duty data but mix-adjusts it for floor area, dwelling type, location and area deprivation to measure how prices move month to month, with 2015 set to 100. Use the index for “are prices up 5% or 8% this year”; use the register for “what did the house two doors down go for”.
What the register says right now
Across Ireland the median full-market sale in 2025 was €380,000 from 58,771 sales, +9% on 2024. So far in 2026 the median is €395,000 across 35,254 sales filed to date. Counties with the most sales since 2010: Dublin (251,842, median €500,000), Cork (89,044, median €387,651), Kildare (43,877, median €450,000), Galway (38,793, median €385,000), Meath (33,461, median €425,000), Limerick (29,467, median €310,000), Wexford (28,108, median €315,000), Wicklow (27,181, median €476,500).
Sale agreed? The price is only half of it
Once you know what the neighbours paid, the next question is what the house itself is hiding. checkmyhouse.ie runs an Eircode through the official Irish sources for flood risk, radon, planning applications next door, BER, title and more, in about ten seconds.
Sources
- Residential Property Price Register, PSRA: information note (section 86, what is recorded, ** marker, VAT on new homes, mixed-use, multi-unit sales, errors and corrections), fetched 22 September 2026.
- Official register search: search fields (address, county, year, start and end month), fetched 22 September 2026.
- Revenue: What happens if you file and pay late?: 44-day filing deadline and the 5% and 10% surcharges, fetched 22 September 2026.
- CSO: Residential Property Price Index, methodology: mix adjustment, base year 2015, variables used, fetched 22 September 2026.
- Sale counts and medians on this page are computed from our copy of the register, updated 4 Sept 2026. See about the data for how we read it.