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Residential property prices rise by 0.9% in the year to December

Table 1.1: Residential Property Price Index
MonthPrice Index (Jan 2005=100)Monthly % change Annual % change
October 2019108.90.11.0
November 2019108.7-0.21.1
December 2019108.1-0.60.9
The latest two month's RPPI results are provisional and subject to revision.
MonthNationalDublinRest of Ireland
Jan-1090.681.195.2
Feb-1089.279.294.1
Mar-1088.177.593.6
Apr-1087.677.392.8
May-1086.176.590.7
Jun-1085.175.589.9
Jul-1084.27588.8
Aug-108475.487.9
Sep-108375.286.2
Oct-1081.67484.6
Nov-1079.972.582.9
Dec-1078.771.281.8
Jan-117870.581.3
Feb-1176.56979.8
Mar-1174.767.178.1
Apr-1173.766.676.6
May-1172.465.575.2
Jun-1171.364.674.1
Jul-1169.863.672.2
Aug-116862.370
Sep-1166.660.668.9
Oct-1165.459.467.7
Nov-1164.358.166.9
Dec-1163.35766.1
Jan-1262.35665.1
Feb-1260.954.563.9
Mar-1261.254.964.1
Apr-1260.254.762.4
May-126054.762
Jun-1259.95561.5
Jul-1260.556.161.5
Aug-1260.656.861
Sep-1261.157.561.2
Oct-1261.35861.1
Nov-1261.158.460.3
Dec-1261.359.160
Jan-1360.258.658.3
Feb-1359.557.658.1
Mar-1358.757.256.8
Apr-135957.956.7
May-135958.356.2
Jun-1360.560.456.9
Jul-136262.657.4
Aug-1362.864.257.5
Sep-1363.865.358.3
Oct-1364.265.758.7
Nov-1364.566.558.4
Dec-1365.367.359.1
Jan-1465.467.658.9
Feb-1465.66859.1
Mar-1466.16958.9
Apr-1467.57159.5
May-1469.373.660.5
Jun-1471.376.661.2
Jul-1473.579.762.3
Aug-1474.981.563.3
Sep-1476.583.564.4
Oct-1477.38465.5
Nov-1477.683.866.3
Dec-147782.666.4
Jan-1577.38366.6
Feb-157782.666.5
Mar-1577.382.567
Apr-1577.982.668.1
May-1578.883.269.2
Jun-1580.184.370.5
Jul-1580.784.771.2
Aug-1581.785.672.2
Sep-158285.572.8
Oct-1582.986.673.5
Nov-1582.686.273.4
Dec-1582.585.873.5
Jan-1683.28773.8
Feb-1682.786.473.5
Mar-168386.673.8
Apr-1683.587.174.2
May-1683.786.874.7
Jun-1684.58776.1
Jul-1686.488.178.5
Aug-1687.689.479.5
Sep-1688.690.880.1
Oct-1689.19180.7
Nov-1690.292.181.9
Dec-1689.991.581.7
Jan-1790.59282.4
Feb-1790.792.282.7
Mar-1791.192.882.8
Apr-1791.492.184.1
May-1792.894.584.4
June-1794.196.385.1
July-1796.498.587.4
Aug-1797.999.988.8
Sept-1799.210190.2
Oct-1799.5101.590.4
Nov-17100.3101.891.6
Dec-17100.8102.292.1
Jan-18101.2102.892.4
Feb-18102103.792.9
Mar-18102.6103.794.1
Apr-18103.6104.195.7
May-18104.3104.896.2
June-18105.3104.998
July-18106105.898.5
Aug-18106.6106.698.8
Sep-18107.6107.599.8
Oct-18107.8107.8100
Nov-18107.5107100
Dec-18107.1106.1100.2
Jan-19106.5105.699.6
Feb-19106.4105.299.7
Mar-19106.5104.6100.5
Apr-19106.7104.6100.9
May-19107104.8101.3
June-19107.4105101.9
July-19108.3105.8102.9
Aug-19108.6106.2103.1
Sep-19108.8106.3103.2
Oct-19108.9106.2103.5
Nov-19108.7106103.3
Dec-19108.1105.1103

Residential property prices increased by 0.9% nationally in the year to December. This compares with an increase of 1.1% in the year to November and an increase of 6.3% in the twelve months to December 2018.

In Dublin, residential property prices decreased by 0.9% in the year to December - house prices decreased by 0.6% and apartments decreased by 1.8%. The highest house price growth in Dublin was in Fingal at 2.9%, while Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown saw a decline of 6.0%.

Residential property prices in Ireland excluding Dublin were 2.8% higher in the year to December, with house prices up by 2.8% and apartments by 2.6%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest rise in house prices was the Border at 6.7% - at the other end of the scale, the Mid-East saw a 0.6% rise.

Overall Decline

Overall, the national index is 17.5% lower than its highest level in 2007. Dublin residential property prices are 22.1% lower than their February 2007 peak, while residential property prices in the Rest of Ireland are 20.3% lower than their May 2007 peak.

Recovery

Property prices nationally have increased by 84.2% from their trough in early 2013. Dublin residential property prices have risen 92.8% from their February 2012 low, whilst residential property prices in the Rest of Ireland are 83.3% higher than at the trough, which was in May

Price Indexannual percentage change
National - all residential properties0.9
National - houses1.2
National - apartments-0.7
Dublin - all residential properties-0.9
Dublin - houses-0.6
Dublin - apartments-1.8
Dublin City - houses-0.7
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown - houses-6
Fingal - houses2.9
South Dublin - houses-1.3
National excluding Dublin - all residential properties2.8
National excluding Dublin - houses2.8
National excluding Dublin - apartments2.6
Border - houses6.7
Midland - houses6
West - houses5.1
Mid-East - houses0.6
Mid-West - houses4.5
South-East - houses0.7
South-West - houses1.5

Note that due to data smoothing, aggregate index annual percentage changes may be greater or less than their component sub-indices, see here for more information.

Residential Property Price Index Breakdown(Base Jan 2005=100)

Note

Because the RPPI is based on Revenue stamp duty returns, which have a 44 day submission deadline, only a fraction of the two most recent months' residential property transactions are available for index compilation the following month. This means that the RPPI for the latest two months is provisional and subject to revision. See background notes.

The StatBank Tables are available here

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