Photo: jwd · CC BY-SA 2.0Homes in Oldtown sell for a median €600,000, 71% above the typical Irish town
Homes in Oldtown sell for a median €600,000. That is the middle of 37 market sales on the Property Price Register from 2023 to 2025. Rent, income and the Cost of living Grade are on Oldtown’s cost of living page.
Half of Oldtown’s homes sold for between €413K and €710K
One sale in ten was under €298K and one in ten over €770K. 8% sold for under €250K and 65% for €500K or more.
The median, €600,000, sits in the €500–750K band
37 market sales, 2023–25, VAT included. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
38% of the homes sold in Oldtown in three years were new
14 new homes and 23 second-hand ones sold from 2023 to 2025, by the register’s own split.
43% of the homes sold in 2025 were new
Calendar years with 10 or more sales. The share peaked at 36% in 2023.
Only 14 new homes sold in three years
Against 23 second-hand: too few new sales for a median of their own in Oldtown.
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: 14 new and 23 second-hand market sales. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%.
The towns of County Dublin by median home
Towns of 1,000 or more in County Dublin, 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: Ashbourne, Swords and Ratoath.
The towns around Oldtown: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldtown | €600K | 37 | – | |
| Ashbourne | €395K | 639 | +96% | 5.6 |
| Swords | €416K | 1,525 | +59% | 8.9 |
| Ratoath | €447K | 301 | +63% | 9.8 |
| Lusk | €450K | 530 | +107% | 9.8 |
| Balrothery | €323K | 19 | – | 11.3 |
| Kinsealy-Drinan | €533K | 231 | +85% | 11.4 |
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 Oldtown
What is the average house price in Oldtown?
The median home in Oldtown sold for €600,000 from 2023 to 2025, across 37 market sales on the Property Price Register.
How many homes sell in Oldtown each year?
5 sales in Oldtown were filed on the Property Price Register in 2025, against an average of 11 a year over the last ten. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted, so the true figure is somewhat higher.
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).