Ireland’s €1M+ Property Market: Where 3,900 Luxury Homes Sold (2024–2026)
Between January 2024 and April 2026, Ireland recorded 3,915 individual home sales of €1 million or more — an average of about five every day. Their combined value: €6.26 billion.
The luxury end of the market is concentrated in a way the rest of Ireland’s property data isn’t. 78.7% of all €1M+ home sales happened in Dublin. Just six Eircode prefixes — D04, A96, A94, D06, D18, D14 — account for almost half of every million-euro home sold in the country. Ballsbridge alone recorded 436 of them.
We pulled every full-market-price sale from the Property Price Register since January 2024, filtered out bulk apartment-block transactions (PPR doesn’t flag them — see Methodology), and mapped the result.
The Luxury Market Is Growing Faster Than the Rest
Million-euro sales jumped from 1,655 in 2024 to 1,863 in 2025 (+12.6%). The 2026 figures only cover Q1 plus the first ten days of April, but the pace is still accelerating: 3.33% of all sales so far in 2026 are €1M+, up from 2.88% in 2024.
Total Irish property sales grew about 2% over the same period. The luxury market grew six times faster.
2026 covers January – 10 April only.
The Million-Euro Eircodes
Ballsbridge (D04) is the undisputed capital of luxury Irish property. 436 sales over €1M in 27 months — one every two days. Glenageary/Dalkey (A96) and Blackrock/Dún Laoghaire (A94) take second and third, with Rathgar/Ranelagh (D06) close behind.
The top six prefixes alone — all in or adjacent to south-east Dublin — account for 52% of every €1M+ home sold in Ireland over the period.
| Eircode | Area | €1M+ sales | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|
| D04 | Donnybrook / Ballsbridge | 436 | €1,859,496 |
| A96 | Glenageary / Dalkey | 394 | €1,715,236 |
| A94 | Blackrock / Dún Laoghaire | 383 | €1,550,064 |
| D06 | Rathgar / Ranelagh | 356 | €1,774,593 |
| D18 | Sandyford / Foxrock | 247 | €1,627,123 |
| D14 | Dundrum / Goatstown | 219 | €1,384,080 |
| K36 | Malahide / Portmarnock | 123 | €1,562,897 |
| D03 | Clontarf / East Wall | 122 | €1,459,138 |
| D6W | Templeogue / Terenure | 104 | €1,354,509 |
| D13 | Donaghmede / Howth | 104 | €1,599,329 |
| A63 | Greystones / Bray South | 90 | €1,386,476 |
| D15 | Blanchardstown / Castleknock | 84 | €1,523,676 |
| A98 | Bray / Kilmacanogue | 71 | €1,502,607 |
| T12 | Cork City Centre | 63 | €1,403,949 |
| D09 | Beaumont / Whitehall | 60 | €1,290,876 |
Dublin’s Near-Monopoly — and the Counties Punching Above
Dublin's share of €1M+ sales (78.7%) is more than three times its share of all sales (around 25%). The next four counties — Wicklow, Cork, Kildare, Meath — together account for less than 15%. Everywhere else in Ireland combined: under 7%.
But average sale price tells a different story. Kerry (€2.33M average), Clare (€2.16M), and Limerick (€1.72M) all outpace Dublin’s €1.62M average. When luxury is bought outside Dublin, it tends to be a country estate, a coastal house, or a rural mansion — bigger ticket, much rarer.
Most €1M+ Sales Aren’t Really Luxury
83.6% of €1M+ home sales fall in the €1–2M band — the floor of the luxury market. Only 1.5% (58 sales) exceeded €5M in 27 months. The genuine ultra-luxury market — the kind that makes the property pages of the broadsheets — is vanishingly small.
The Biggest Single Home Sales (2024–2026)
Three sales tied at the top: a Howth headland mansion (Censure House on Ceanchor Rd, March 2024) and two homes on Ailesbury Rd in Donnybrook (one in September 2024, the second in March 2026 — the largest single sale of the year so far). All three transacted at exactly €10,000,000.
Of the top 15, all 15 are in Dublin, with Ballsbridge / Ailesbury Rd / Shrewsbury Rd, Dalkey / Coliemore Rd, and Dartry / Temple Rd dominating. Ireland’s most expensive streets are remarkably stable.
| # | Price | Date | Address | Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | €10.00M | 13/03/2024 | Censure House, Ceanchor Rd | Baily, Howth |
| 2 | €10.00M | 23/09/2024 | 81 Ailesbury Rd | Donnybrook, D4 |
| 3 | €10.00M | 12/03/2026 | Mulcaire, 40A Ailesbury Rd | Donnybrook, D4 |
| 4 | €9.75M | 31/01/2025 | Seagrange, Sandycove Ave East | Sandycove |
| 5 | €8.25M | 02/08/2024 | Melbeach, Albany Ave | Monkstown |
| 6 | €7.50M | 03/04/2024 | 21 Temple Rd, Dartry | Dublin 6 |
| 7 | €7.50M | 28/06/2024 | Rarc an Ilan, 22 Coliemore Rd | Dalkey |
| 8 | €7.33M | 22/08/2025 | 44 Templeville, 44 Temple Rd | Dartry, D6 |
| 9 | €7.25M | 24/07/2024 | Waverley, Westminster Rd | Foxrock, D18 |
| 10 | €7.10M | 06/06/2025 | 87 Ailesbury Rd | Donnybrook, D4 |
| 11 | €7.00M | 05/11/2024 | 36 Coliemore Rd | Dalkey |
| 12 | €7.00M | 26/01/2026 | 9 Clyde Rd | Ballsbridge, D4 |
| 13 | €6.75M | 29/11/2024 | 5 Shrewsbury Rd | Ballsbridge, D4 |
| 14 | €6.50M | 12/09/2024 | 16 Leeson Park | Ranelagh, D6 |
| 15 | €6.50M | 14/11/2024 | Villa Christina, Torca Rd | Dalkey |
All addresses appear in the public Property Price Register at propertypriceregister.ie. List excludes transactions whose addresses indicate multi-unit or portfolio deals.
Methodology — and Why It Matters
The PPR records every property conveyance, but it doesn’t distinguish a single luxury home from a portfolio or apartment block sold as one transaction. The raw data shows 4,494 sales over €1M since January 2024. Of those, 579 (€6.42B aggregate) are clearly bulk transactions: addresses like “1–58 Bayview Gardens,” “47 Apartments at Castle House,” “Block A, B and C, Newmarket Yards” or sales above €10M. The largest of all was a single €388M transaction in October 2024 (a 24-unit complex in Wicklow).
We excluded those bulk deals using two filters: an address regex matching multi-unit phrases (“block,” “units,” “1–58,” “and others,” etc.) and a hard cap of €10M, since genuinely-residential single sales above that figure are vanishingly rare in Ireland.
Everything in this article uses the cleaned set of 3,915 individual home sales. We also restricted to full-market-price rows — PPR’s flag for excluding inheritances, gifts, and other below-market transfers.
What This Means
Three things stand out:
- The luxury market is small but growing fast. 3.06% of full-market sales over the period exceeded €1M, and that share is rising every year. Whatever is driving Irish house price growth, it’s pushing the top end up faster than the middle.
- Geography is destiny. Six south-Dublin Eircodes account for over half the entire €1M+ market. Outside those, you can count Ireland’s genuine luxury enclaves on two hands: Greystones, Howth, Foxrock, Malahide, Cork city, Galway city.
- The country-estate buyer is real but rare. Kerry, Clare, and Limerick top the average-price table precisely because their few €1M+ sales are big country homes — the buyer profile is completely different from a D04 townhouse.
If you want to track the market, the Trends page breaks every county down by year, and Search lets you filter by price band, county, and Eircode directly.
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