Ireland's Most Traded New Build Estates — Resale Rates Ranked (2015–2025)

We used the full Property Price Register (772,000+ sales). For each new build sold between 2015 and 2022, we stripped the house number from the address and grouped by estate. Estates with fewer than 20 new build sales were excluded to avoid noise from one-off developments.

We then scanned all subsequent second-hand sales for address matches — giving us a resale pair: original purchase date and price, and resale date and price. Only full market price sales were included. Sales resold within 6 months were excluded (likely builder bulk transactions).

Turnover is benchmarked against the median turnover for all estates that sold in the same vintage year — so a 2015 estate is compared to other 2015 estates, not to newer ones that simply haven't had time to turn over yet. The PPR records street address but not buyer type, so we can't distinguish investors from owner-occupiers.

Parkside Court, Malahide Rd leads with 45% turnover — 9 of 20 homes have resold, at an average of 5.8 years after purchase. This is a 2017-vintage estate where the benchmark turnover for that year is around 18%, making it an extreme outlier at +31 percentage points above its peers.

Monalin, Newtownmountkennedy is the largest high-churn estate in the dataset — 67 original units, 23 resales, 34% turnover. At a median CAGR of 12.2%, sellers have done well. This is a pattern seen across many high-turnover estates: strong price growth suggests these are trade-up sellers, not people fleeing a bad purchase.

The Terrace, Robswall, Malahide and Landen Park, Naas show that larger estates can still churn heavily — 45 and 74 units respectively, both over 29% turnover, both with average holding periods of 5–6 years.

Just 6 matched resales appeared in 2017. By 2025 that had grown to 338 — a 56x increase in eight years. The acceleration reflects a simple mechanical reality: as the 2015–2022 cohort matures, more of those homeowners are reaching the typical 5-year holding window. With the 2022 cohort barely 3 years old, this number will continue rising through 2027 and beyond.

The time-to-resale data confirms the pattern: just 19.7% of resales happen within 3 years. The majority — 66.2% — occur between 3 and 7 years after original purchase. This is the classic trade-up timeline: buy a starter home, let equity build, move up.

This is why raw turnover numbers can't be compared across vintages. A 2015 estate has had a full decade for owners to move on; a 2022 estate has barely cleared the 3-year mark. The median turnover for 2015 estates sits at 20.5% — nearly five times the 4.3% seen for 2022 estates.

The benchmark comparison corrects for this. An estate showing 25% turnover against a 2015 peer group of 20% median is a meaningful outlier. The same figure for a 2019 estate — where the benchmark is 9.7% — is a much more significant signal.

Limerick leads at 20% median turnover across 9 qualifying estates. Dublin, with 120 estates, shows a median of 12.5%, consistently above the national median of 10%. Kildare and Meath sit just either side of the national figure, consistent with their commuter-belt character.

The gaps are real but modest. Silken Park Avenue, Kingswood is the starkest case: 24% turnover, a CAGR of 10.0% against a peer median of 14.3% for similar-priced Dublin new builds from the same year. On a €250K purchase held for 5 years, that -3.3pp gap represents roughly €25,000 in forgone equity relative to a comparable estate nearby.

Whether that reflects build quality, management, location micro-factors, or simply a higher proportion of investor buyers is impossible to determine from PPR data alone. The signal is there; the cause isn't.