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House prices in Portlaoise

The median house in Portlaoise, Co. Laois sold for

€251,500

in 2025, across 304 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 11.8%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 47.9%.

2026 is still running. The median so far is €285,000 over 176 sales, which is not comparable with a full year.

Sales here carried the Eircode area R32.

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What the sales say

The kind of place Portlaoise is

Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Portlaoise is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.

  • Still being added to

    24% of sales since 2016 were new builds, so building has carried on here rather than stopped.

  • In line with Laois

    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 busy market

    304 sales counted in 2025. Enough changes hands for the figures to hold up.

The shape of it

Year by year

  1. 2010€140,000
  2. 2011€130,000
  3. 2012€85,500
  4. 2013€72,000
  5. 2014€82,000
  6. 2015€107,000
  7. 2016€125,000
  8. 2017€138,750
  9. 2018€152,000
  10. 2019€180,000
  11. 2020€170,025
  12. 2021€191,500
  13. 2022€214,500
  14. 2023€220,000
  15. 2024€225,000
  16. 2025€251,500
  17. 2026*€285,000
Median sale price by year, with the sales excluded from each figure
YearMedianMiddle halfSalesNew buildsSet aside
2026part year€285,000€245,000 to €365,50017640%125
2025€251,500€192,000 to €317,75030446%283
2024€225,000€187,000 to €294,00032539%232
2023€220,000€181,550 to €275,00038229%187
2022€214,500€175,000 to €264,92535219%93
2021€191,500€155,000 to €245,00034025%132
2020€170,025€138,250 to €203,75023420%80
2019€180,000€145,000 to €210,00028215%82
2018€152,000€118,000 to €193,00026513%64
2017€138,750€101,491 to €185,00027812%80
2016€125,000€95,000 to €152,0002157%41
2015€107,000€81,000 to €155,00021710%49
2014€82,000€60,000 to €120,00019719%66
2013€72,000€52,500 to €105,00013914%31
2012€85,500€59,500 to €121,25010829%65
2011€130,000€90,000 to €160,0007337%51
2010€140,000€110,000 to €183,0008936%60

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 Portlaoise

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.

What your money buys

What sold, and at what price

Every counted sale in Portlaoise 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 €150k101 (9%)
  • €150k to €250k534 (45%)
  • €250k to €350k368 (31%)
  • €350k to €500k142 (12%)
  • €500k to €750k33 (3%)
  • €750k and over9 (1%)

Where the sales are

Busiest streets and estates in Portlaoise

All 142 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.

New against second hand

New builds in Portlaoise

In 2025 the median new build in Portlaoise sold for €375,000, against €251,500 for a second hand home, which puts new builds 49% above the rest of the market here. That is over 263 new build sales and 304 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 Portlaoise

The average rent registered in Portlaoise was €1,316 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 Portlaoise 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

  1. 20202,769
  2. 20212,829
  3. 20223,080
  4. 20232,694
  5. 20242,535
  6. 20252,500

Down 10% on 2020.

What was recorded in 2025

Theft and related offences
642
Road and traffic offences
489
Public order and other social code offences
311
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences
278
Dangerous or negligent acts
209

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 Laois

Every place in Laois

Renting instead

If you are renting in Portlaoise

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.

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