House prices in Buncrana
The median house in Buncrana, Co. Donegal sold for
€195,000
in 2025, across 48 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 rose 39.3%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 25.8%.
2026 is still running. The median so far is €219,500 over 35 sales, which is not comparable with a full year.
Sales here carried the Eircode area F93.
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What the sales say
The kind of place Buncrana is
Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Buncrana is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.
In line with Donegal
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
48 sales counted in 2025. Enough changes hands for the figures to hold up.
The shape of it
Year by year
- 2010€155,000
- 2011€130,000
- 2012€100,000
- 2013€115,000
- 2014€87,250
- 2015€100,000
- 2016€103,000
- 2017€132,500
- 2018€110,000
- 2019€135,000
- 2020€155,000
- 2021€145,000
- 2022€140,000
- 2023€136,000
- 2024€140,000
- 2025€195,000
- 2026*€219,500
| Year | Median | Middle half | Sales | New builds | Set aside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026part year | €219,500 | €147,500 to €295,000 | 35 | 3% | 1 |
| 2025 | €195,000 | €129,375 to €241,250 | 48 | 8% | 5 |
| 2024 | €140,000 | €93,250 to €190,000 | 40 | 2% | 5 |
| 2023 | €136,000 | €100,000 to €200,500 | 47 | 2% | 1 |
| 2022 | €140,000 | €80,000 to €150,000 | 25 | 17% | 6 |
| 2021 | €145,000 | €106,000 to €191,000 | 37 | 8% | 12 |
| 2020 | €155,000 | €110,000 to €200,000 | 49 | 6% | 9 |
| 2019 | €135,000 | €73,000 to €170,000 | 55 | 4% | 14 |
| 2018 | €110,000 | €63,250 to €144,500 | 67 | 1% | 6 |
| 2017 | €132,500 | €80,750 to €163,750 | 54 | 5% | 9 |
| 2016 | €103,000 | €70,000 to €142,000 | 55 | 4% | 6 |
| 2015 | €100,000 | €73,250 to €135,000 | 75 | 3% | 6 |
| 2014 | €87,250 | €70,875 to €124,375 | 58 | 16% | 13 |
| 2013 | €115,000 | €85,000 to €150,000 | 33 | 18% | 10 |
| 2012 | €100,000 | €70,050 to €131,250 | 20 | 13% | 6 |
| 2011 | €130,000 | €102,500 to €147,500 | 18 | 14% | 6 |
| 2010 | €155,000 | €118,750 to €172,500 | 15 | 44% | 12 |
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 Buncrana
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.
- 26 St Johns Park, Lower Ballymacarry, BuncranaF93 TF602 September 2026 · also sold €225,000 in 2023€400,000
- 1 Dunrea Apts, St Marys Rd, BuncranaF93 E09527 August 2026 on St Marys Rd€50,000
- 4 Sea Crest, Buncrana, Co DonegalF93 N8W75 August 2026€275,000
- 6 Sandymount, Tank Rd, BuncranaF93 K02421 July 2026€178,000
- St Anthomys, Ludden, BuncranaF93 F9FH7 July 2026 on Ludden€280,000
- Ullord, Swilly Rd, BuncranaF93 X6R730 June 2026 on Swilly Rd€480,000
- 10 Conorville, Ludden, BuncranaF93 YR5029 June 2026 on Ludden€240,000
- 2 Millfield, Buncrana, Co. DonegalF93 YN8424 June 2026€265,000
- Cahir Odoherty Ave, Buncrana, DonegalF93 KN6016 June 2026€475,000
- Magherard House, Pillar Park, BuncranaF93 CV675 June 2026 on Pillar Park€155,000
- 35 Mulberry Ave, Buncrana, DonegalF93 YT9629 May 2026 on Mulberry Ave€140,000
- 17 Maginn Avenue, Buncrana, DonegalF93 A4N526 May 2026 on Maginn Avenue€200,000
What your money buys
What sold, and at what price
Every counted sale in Buncrana 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 €150k73 (43%)
- €150k to €250k61 (36%)
- €250k to €350k22 (13%)
- €350k to €500k10 (6%)
- €500k to €750k4 (2%)
Where the sales are
Busiest streets and estates in Buncrana
All 43 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.
- Slavery43 sales€86,000
- Ludden42 sales€140,000
- Linsfort38 sales€189,000
- Ardaravan19 sales€108,000
- Ballymagan18 sales€120,000
- Cockhill Rd17 sales€115,000
- Marian Park15 sales€100,000
- St Marys Rd15 sales€113,000
- Tullyarvan15 sales€93,500
- Carraig Fern14 sales€110,000
- Clonbeg13 sales€151,000
- Lisfannon11 sales€190,000
- Aghilly10 sales€160,000
- Magherinture10 sales€155,000
- Fahan9 sales€220,000
- Heather Park9 sales€110,000
- Lower Main Street9 sales€70,000
- Maginn Avenue9 sales€80,000
- Main St9 sales€25,000
- Pillar Park9 sales€155,000
- St. Oran's Road9 sales€195,000
- The Woods9 sales€154,000
- Ballymacarry8 sales€186,250
- Railway Rd8 sales€128,000
- Summerhill8 sales€160,000
- Swilly Rd8 sales€116,875
- Upper Main Street8 sales€44,000
- Allendale7 sales€130,000
- Ardravan7 sales€120,000
- Gransha7 sales€83,500
- Mulberry Ave7 sales€138,000
- Straboe7 sales€155,000
- Burwood6 sales€136,500
- Castle Park6 sales€143,250
- Cloncool Park6 sales€141,000
- Elm Park6 sales€160,000
- Ferris Lane6 sales€172,500
- A Cluain Mhuire5 sales€95,500
- Ardaravan Sq5 sales€68,000
- Cluain Mhuire5 sales€61,000
- Gleann Aibhinn5 sales€165,000
- Loch View5 sales€130,000
- Oakfield Crescent5 sales€120,000
New against second hand
New builds in Buncrana
In 2014 the median new build in Buncrana sold for €73,000, against €87,250 for a second hand home, which puts new builds 16% below the rest of the market here. That is over 11 new build sales and 58 second hand ones.
The new build figure is reconstructed rather than recorded. A new home goes on the register at its price before Value Added Tax, so the filed figure has been multiplied by 1.135 to get back to what the buyer paid. New build prices across the country.
The other side of it
Renting in Buncrana
The average rent registered in Buncrana was €928 a month in October to December 2025. By bedrooms, by property type and quarter by quarter.
That is an average over tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, and the figure above it is a median over sales. Two different statistics about two different sets of homes, so nothing here divides one by the other.
Recorded crime
Incidents at Buncrana Garda station
Incidents recorded by this station across the district it covers, which is wider than the town it is named after. These are counts and not rates: there is no population figure here to divide by, so they cannot be used to compare one place with another. What they can show is the direction of travel in this one place.
Year by year
- 2020604
- 2021602
- 2022432
- 2023473
- 2024490
- 2025463
Down 23% on 2020.
What was recorded in 2025
- Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences
- 97
- Public order and other social code offences
- 90
- Road and traffic offences
- 87
- Dangerous or negligent acts
- 59
- Damage to property and to the environment offences
- 49
The five largest categories.
Source: Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, totalled by station and year rather than reproduced.
Elsewhere in Donegal
Renting instead
If you are renting in Buncrana
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.