Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0At a median €176,000, homes in Ballybofey-Stranorlar cost 50% less than in the typical Irish town
Homes in Ballybofey-Stranorlar sell for a median €176,000. That is the middle of 229 market sales on the Property Price Register from 2023 to 2025. Prices are up 91% on 2015. Rent, income and the Cost of living Grade are on Ballybofey-Stranorlar’s cost of living page.
91% of the homes sold in Ballybofey-Stranorlar were second-hand
229 market sales in three years: 20 new homes and 209 second-hand.
median sale · 209 sold in 3 years
- 2025 median
- €175K 59 sold
- 2022 to 2025
- +13%
- the typical Irish town
- €326K
New homes: 20 sold
Fewer than 30 sales: too few for a median.
median sale · 229 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- €138K–€240K
- Last 12 months
- €215K 60 sold
- the typical Irish town
- €350K
9% of the sales were new homes
Market sales on the Property Price Register, 2023–25. The register says whether a home was new or second-hand, not its type or size. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%. A median needs 30 sales.
Half of Ballybofey-Stranorlar’s homes sold for between €138K and €240K
One sale in ten was under €82K and one in ten over €320K. 76% sold for under €250K and 1% for €500K or more.
The median, €176,000, sits in the €150–200K band
229 market sales, 2023–25, VAT included. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Prices are up 91% on 2015, a slower rise than the typical Irish town’s
From €65,000 in 2013 to €215,000 in 2025, each the median of that year’s market sales.
More homes sell than in most years
74 homes sold in 2025. The busiest year was 2023, with 81, and the quietest 2012, with 17.
Ballybofey-Stranorlar costs less than the typical Irish town
Each year’s median sale: the town, the middle of County Donegal’s towns of 2,500 or more, and the typical Irish town.
New homes and second-hand, year by year
| 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All homes | — | €113K | €136K | €215K |
| Typical Irish town | €220K | €170K | €261K | €388K |
| Second-hand homes | — | €113K | €135K | €175K |
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 30 sales of the kind, so a dash is a year with fewer.
Property Price Register: every market sale placed in the town since 2010, VAT included; a year’s median needs 30 sales. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted.
9% of the homes sold in Ballybofey-Stranorlar in three years were new
20 new homes and 209 second-hand ones sold from 2023 to 2025, by the register’s own split.
20% of the homes sold in 2025 were new
Calendar years with 10 or more sales. The share peaked at 30% in 2010.
Only 20 new homes sold in three years
Against 209 second-hand: too few new sales for a median of their own in Ballybofey-Stranorlar.
Filed without VAT
Most new homes are filed on the register without VAT. Every figure here adds back 13.5%, so new and second-hand compare like for like.
Property Price Register, 2023–25: 20 new and 209 second-hand market sales. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%.
The Beeches is Ballybofey-Stranorlar’s busiest street or estate, with 19 sales in three years
7 streets and estates had 5 or more sales from 2023 to 2025, 1 of them ten or more.
| # | Street or estate | Sales | Median | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Beeches | 19 | €198,000 | Mixed |
| 2 | Blue Cedars | 8 | €187,200 | Second-hand |
| 3 | Glenfin Road | 6 | €127,000 | Second-hand |
| 4 | Cappry | 5 | €203,000 | Second-hand |
| 5 | Dunwiley | 5 | €210,000 | Second-hand |
| 6 | Glebe Hollow | 5 | €156,000 | Second-hand |
| 7 | Lawnsdale | 5 | €162,000 | Second-hand |
Streets and estates with 5 or more market sales from 2023 to 2025, named as the register’s addresses name them; medians only.
Ballybofey-Stranorlar is the 8th most expensive of 18 towns in County Donegal
Ballybofey-Stranorlar is in the middle of County Donegal’s towns to buy in; the typical Irish town’s median is €350,000.
Towns of 1,000 or more in County Donegal, by their median home of 2023–25; * marks a routing-key median (fewer than 30 sales in the town). Each links to its own Housing page.
Cheaper nearby: Convoy, Raphoe and Lifford.
The towns around Ballybofey-Stranorlar: their median home (2023–25), market sales on the Property Price Register in those three years, the change in ten years and the distance.
| Town | Median sale | Sales, 3 years | Since 2015 | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballybofey-Stranorlar | €176K | 229 | +91% | |
| Convoy | €165K | 0 | – | 10.3 |
| Raphoe | €133K | 36 | – | 13.9 |
| Letterkenny | €188K | 1,019 | +167% | 18 |
| Lifford | €143K | 191 | +123% | 19 |
A routing-key price (fewer than 30 sales in the town) counts for its whole postal area. Rents are each town’s own RTB figure where published, else its district’s, city’s or county’s.
Questions about property prices in Ballybofey-Stranorlar
What is the average house price in Ballybofey-Stranorlar?
The median home in Ballybofey-Stranorlar sold for €176,000 from 2023 to 2025, across 229 market sales on the Property Price Register (€215,000 in the last 12 months).
Are house prices going up in Ballybofey-Stranorlar?
The median sale was €169,200 in 2024 and €215,000 in 2025: it went up 27%.
How many homes sell in Ballybofey-Stranorlar each year?
74 sales in Ballybofey-Stranorlar were filed on the Property Price Register in 2025, against an average of 65 a year over the last ten. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted, so the true figure is somewhat higher.
Is Ballybofey-Stranorlar expensive for County Donegal?
Ballybofey-Stranorlar is the 4th most expensive of 6 towns of 2,500 or more in County Donegal by median sale price.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
Yes: the Property Price Register publishes every residential sale with its address and price at propertypriceregister.ie. This page shows the town’s medians and counts.
Sales: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority. House prices by Eircode routing key, RTB rents and household incomes: CSO, CC BY 4.0. Routing-key areas: Autoaddress.
Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), 2010–2026 · CSO HPA04 house prices by Eircode routing key, 2023–25. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).