Photo: Stephen Elwyn RODDICK · CC BY-SA 2.0Home prices in Skerries are up 76% on 2015, a slower rise than in the typical Irish town (+129%)
The median home in Skerries sells for €500,000. That is the middle of 366 market sales on the Property Price Register from 2023 to 2025. Prices are up 76% on 2015. Rent, income and the Cost of living Grade are on Skerries’s cost of living page.
91% of the homes sold in Skerries were second-hand
366 market sales in three years: 32 new homes and 334 second-hand. At the median a new home sold for 17% less.
median sale · 32 sold in 3 years
- the typical Irish town
- €419K
median sale · 334 sold in 3 years
- 2025 median
- €555K 116 sold
- 2022 to 2025
- +17%
- the typical Irish town
- €326K
median sale · 366 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- €393K–€625K
- Last 12 months
- €573K 116 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 Skerries’s homes sold for between €393K and €625K
One sale in ten was under €315K and one in ten over €768K. 3% sold for under €250K and 50% for €500K or more.
The median, €500,000, sits in the €500–750K band
366 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 76% on 2015, a slower rise than the typical Irish town’s
From €295,000 in 2010 to €555,000 in 2025, each the median of that year’s market sales.
About as many homes sell as usual
124 homes sold in 2025. The busiest year was 2017, with 187, and the quietest 2011, with 41.
Skerries costs more than the typical Irish town
Each year’s median sale: the town, the middle of County Dublin’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 | €295K | €315K | €370K | €555K |
| Typical Irish town | €220K | €170K | €261K | €388K |
| Second-hand homes | €287K | €329K | €366K | €555K |
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 Skerries in three years were new
32 new homes and 334 second-hand ones sold from 2023 to 2025, by the register’s own split.
6% of the homes sold in 2025 were new
Calendar years with 10 or more sales. The share peaked at 47% in 2017.
A new home sold for a median €420,000
against €505,000 for a home sold on, 17% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
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: 32 new and 334 second-hand market sales. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%.
Barnageeragh Cove is Skerries’s busiest street or estate, with 41 sales in three years
19 streets and estates had 5 or more sales from 2023 to 2025, 6 of them ten or more.
| # | Street or estate | Sales | Median | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnageeragh Cove | 41 | €440,000 | Mixed |
| 2 | Golf Links Road | 22 | €530,000 | Mixed |
| 3 | Balbriggan Street | 14 | €382,500 | Second-hand |
| 4 | Strand Street | 12 | €607,500 | Second-hand |
| 5 | Quay Street | 10 | €722,500 | Second-hand |
| 6 | Thomas Hand Street | 10 | €365,000 | Second-hand |
| 7 | Kellys Bay Heights | 8 | €314,500 | Second-hand |
| 8 | Balbriggan Road | 7 | €392,000 | Second-hand |
| 9 | Ballygossan Way | 7 | €525,000 | Mostly new |
| 10 | Sherlock Park | 7 | €452,000 | Second-hand |
| 11 | South Strand | 7 | €580,000 | Second-hand |
| 12 | Townparks | 7 | €695,000 | Second-hand |
| 13 | Kellys Bay Rocks | 6 | €469,000 | Second-hand |
| 14 | Kellys Bay | 5 | €550,000 | Second-hand |
| 15 | Kellys Bay Moorings | 5 | €275,000 | Second-hand |
Rush Road: €955,000
Kellys Bay Moorings: €275,000
At the median, the dearest costs 3.5 times the cheapest.
Streets and estates with 5 or more market sales from 2023 to 2025, named as the register’s addresses name them; medians only.
Skerries is the 42nd most expensive of 118 towns in County Dublin
Skerries is in the middle of County Dublin’s towns to buy in; the typical Irish town’s median is €350,000.
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: Balrothery, Rush and Balbriggan.
The towns around Skerries: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skerries | €500K | 366 | +76% | |
| Balrothery | €323K | 19 | – | 4.5 |
| Rush | €430K | 547 | +94% | 6 |
| Balbriggan | €300K | 814 | +117% | 6.1 |
| Lusk | €450K | 530 | +107% | 6.8 |
| Portrane | €548K | 18 | – | 8.9 |
| Donabate | €490K | 584 | +48% | 10 |
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 Skerries
What is the average house price in Skerries?
The median home in Skerries sold for €500,000 from 2023 to 2025, across 366 market sales on the Property Price Register (€573,000 in the last 12 months).
Are house prices going up in Skerries?
The median sale was €490,000 in 2024 and €555,000 in 2025: it went up 13%.
How many homes sell in Skerries each year?
124 sales in Skerries were filed on the Property Price Register in 2025, against an average of 136 a year over the last ten. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted, so the true figure is somewhat higher.
How much does a new build cost in Skerries?
New homes sold for a median €420,000 over three years, against €505,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 9% of sales.
Is Skerries expensive for County Dublin?
Skerries is the 41st most expensive of 116 towns of 2,500 or more in County Dublin 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).