House prices in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

At the average sale price, a home costs €784,761. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €3,152 a month. Ireland sets no cap on the payment; the Central Bank limits most mortgages to four times gross income for first-time buyers and 3.5 times for others.

Figures for Dublin: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has no reliable figures of its own.

Renting the average home costs less each month than owning it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average rent of the tenancies registered with the RTB in the year. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

32.7% fewer homes were granted planning permission in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 3 times since 2010. The deepest began in January 2010.

5.7% of the 93,257 homes counted in the 2022 census were unoccupied: vacant, or holiday homes.