House prices in Ovens
The median house in Ovens, Co. Cork sold for
€385,000
in 2025, across 28 sales that counted.
Every figure here comes from the Property Price Register, the official record of residential sales in Ireland, filed since 2010.
On the year before, the median fell 27.4%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 33.9%.
2026 is still running. The median so far is €415,000 over 27 sales, which is not comparable with a full year.
Sales here carried the Eircode area P31.
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What the sales say
The kind of place Ovens is
Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Ovens is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.
Still being added to
29% of sales since 2016 were new builds, so building has carried on here rather than stopped.
In line with Cork
The median here sat within a quarter of the county median in 2025, so it tracks the county rather than standing apart from it.
A steady market
28 sales counted in 2025. Enough changes hands for the figures to hold up.
The shape of it
Year by year
- 2010€228,750
- 2011€197,000
- 2012€235,000
- 2013€180,000
- 2014€213,000
- 2015€245,500
- 2016€242,000
- 2017€275,000
- 2018€282,500
- 2019€275,000
- 2020€287,500
- 2021€340,000
- 2022€333,000
- 2023€319,500
- 2024€530,000
- 2025€385,000
- 2026*€415,000
| Year | Median | Middle half | Sales | New builds | Set aside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026part year | €415,000 | €367,500 to €585,000 | 27 | 37% | 16 |
| 2025 | €385,000 | €326,875 to €491,250 | 28 | 59% | 41 |
| 2024 | €530,000 | €356,250 to €611,250 | 46 | 50% | 48 |
| 2023 | €319,500 | €270,250 to €468,750 | 44 | 14% | 9 |
| 2022 | €333,000 | €269,500 to €505,000 | 43 | 0% | 3 |
| 2021 | €340,000 | €280,000 to €477,500 | 33 | 11% | 6 |
| 2020 | €287,500 | €267,500 to €386,000 | 38 | 25% | 14 |
| 2019 | €275,000 | €244,500 to €336,250 | 40 | 53% | 45 |
| 2018 | €282,500 | €246,250 to €410,750 | 48 | 20% | 14 |
| 2017 | €275,000 | €235,250 to €358,750 | 42 | 31% | 23 |
| 2016 | €242,000 | €185,000 to €315,000 | 37 | 27% | 16 |
| 2015 | €245,500 | €223,250 to €309,375 | 34 | 17% | 8 |
| 2014 | €213,000 | €175,000 to €273,000 | 37 | 29% | 15 |
| 2013 | €180,000 | €162,000 to €259,625 | 22 | 27% | 9 |
| 2012 | €235,000 | €192,500 to €283,500 | 23 | 38% | 14 |
| 2011 | €197,000 | €165,000 to €330,000 | 17 | 39% | 12 |
| 2010 | €228,750 | €220,000 to €256,688 | 18 | 42% | 14 |
Set aside counts the sales left out of each median: ones that were not at arm’s length, and ones where the recorded price left out the tax the buyer paid.
Most recent
The last 12 sales in Ovens
Addresses as filed for stamp duty, with the Eircode where the register carries one. Streets are linked where enough has sold on them for a page of their own.
- 8 Manor Grove, Grange Manor, OvensP31 KW571 September 2026 on Grange Manor · also sold €263,000 in 2022€385,000
- 26 The Ferns, Classes Lake, OvensP31 PP6820 August 2026 on Classes Lake€490,000
- 11 Oak Dr, Classes Lake, OvensP31 FF6113 August 2026 on Classes Lake€410,000
- 2 Codrum Drive, Codrum Hall, Ovensnew build10 August 2026€422,907ex VAT
- 34 The Willows, Classis Lake, OvensP31 H5254 August 2026 on Classis Lake€448,000
- 70 Lisheen Woods, Classes Lake, OvensP31 N22831 July 2026 on Classes Lake€140,500
- 43 Bothar An Chrainn, Ovensnew build30 July 2026€439,648ex VAT
- 24 Berryfield, Classes Lakes, OvensP31 HR6423 July 2026€340,000
- 4 Codrum Drive, Ovensnew build20 July 2026€493,392ex VAT
- 14 Codrum Green, Codrum Hall, Ovens Corknew build3 July 2026€462,511ex VAT
- 8 Codrum Drive, Codrum Hall, Ovensnew build23 June 2026€425,580ex VAT
- 30 Bothar An Chrainn, Ovensnew build22 June 2026€572,687ex VAT
What your money buys
What sold, and at what price
Every counted sale in Ovens since 2023, sorted into bands. Recent years only, deliberately: over the whole register nearly half of everywhere looks cheap, because of what houses cost in 2012. The question this answers is whether anything at all sells for what you have now.
- €0k to €150k2 (1%)
- €150k to €250k11 (8%)
- €250k to €350k41 (28%)
- €350k to €500k42 (29%)
- €500k to €750k34 (23%)
- €750k and over15 (10%)
Where the sales are
Busiest streets and estates in Ovens
All 16 of them, counted over the whole register, so these span years rather than describing this one. A street needs five sales before it appears at all.
- Classes Lake184 sales€260,000
- Grange Manor125 sales€266,403
- Lisheen Woods77 sales€564,000
- Classis Lake70 sales€294,500
- Lisheen Fields62 sales€462,000
- Bridewood24 sales€240,000
- Knockanemore21 sales€540,000
- Grange14 sales€300,000
- Clashanure12 sales€555,000
- Windsor9 sales€455,000
- Ballygroman Lower7 sales€340,000
- Currabeg7 sales€352,000
- Garryhesta7 sales€320,000
- Kilcrea7 sales€562,000
- Killumney7 sales€385,000
- Lower Farran6 sales€415,000
Elsewhere in Cork
Renting instead
If you are renting in Ovens
Rent is capped everywhere in the State now, at 2% or inflation a year, whichever is lower. Work out what your own rent can rise to or read what replaced Rent Pressure Zones.
How the place was worked out
The register has no town column. It has an address, and the place is read out of it: the county is stripped off and the part left at the end is the locality. Addresses that end in a street name rather than a place are not counted towards anywhere.
A place appears here only where at least forty sales were recorded in it, and a figure is printed for a year only where at least ten sales sat behind it.
Source: Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 9 September 2026.
Guides
Worth reading beside this
How to read an entry on the Property Price Register
The date is not the sale date, the address is whatever the solicitor typed, and about 15.2% of entries in our town-level comparison sample carry no Eircode. What each field means.
Why the price on the register is not what the buyer paid
About 10.4% of sales in our town-level comparison sample are filed without the VAT the buyer paid on top. A €400,000 new build appears as €352,423. How to spot one and what to add back.
What a house actually gained between two sales
1,099 properties in our town-level comparison sample have sold more than once. Matching the two sales gives a real gain on a real house, which is a different thing to a national index.