Daft.ie Laois house prices reveal buying cost just jumped again

The cost of buying a house in Laois jumped again over the summer, according to new figures from Daft.ie which also shows actual asking prices being dwarfed by sales prices. 

The Daft.ie House Price Report for the second quarter of 2025 showed that Laois house prices surged upwards by nearly 20% to  €284,000 on the same period in 2024.

The third quarter report, published on September 30, reveals another jump in property prices in the Midlands county, which is growing increasingly popular with commuters. 

From July to the end of September, the average price of a three-bedroom semi-detached house had risen to €295,000, up 14.8% on a year ago.

The report also shows that median price of a newly built home in the year to June in Laois is now €363,000. The cost per square metre is €2,670 for of a three-bedroom semi-detached house

Actual sale prices published on the property portal, as the new report was published, show that secondhand homes are changing hands for €20,000 above asking prices in Portlaoise. Meanwhile, new semi-detached homes in Portlaoise are listed at almost €450,000.

The Daft.ie report provided to the Leinster Express/Laois Live analyses trends in the residential sales market from July to September inclusive. It has added new categories of homes from previous daft reports 

The report only lists an average price for a two-bedroom apartment in Laois. Such a home will set you back now costs €184,000 in the county - up 5% rise on the same time last year.

A three-bed terraced home is selling at €€280,000 - that's up by nearly a quarter on last year.

The slowest growth rate is for three-bedroom semi-detached homes, which cost €204,000, but this is up 13.9% compared to 12 months ago. 

Buyers face average asking prices of €412,000 for a four-bedroom bungalow - up 18.5% on last year.

A four-bed detached home will set you back €440,000, which is up nearly 10% on a year ago while the cost of a three-bed detached house has risen by the same rate to €313,000. A two-bed detached home is now €225,000 up 23.1%.

The semi-detached prices are as follows

• 3-bed €295,000 up 14.8%  
• 4-bed semi-detached €346,000 up 6.0%

The reality facing buyers in Laois is that they can expect to buy well above the asking price. 

A new sold section on the Daft.ie lists properties sold. A 3-bed semi-detached house at 10 Gandon Close, Fairgreen, Portlaoise was sold by Sherry Fitzgerald Hyland for €270,000 when the asking price as €249,000.  MORE BELOW PHOTO

Also in August, 7 Holdbrook Way, Holdbrook, Portlaoise was sold by Humes €315,000 when the asking was €295,000. It was a three-bed semi-detached home.

There are several new developments in Portlaoise. A new 4-bed semi-detached home in Dargan Woods off the Borris Road, is on the market for €447,500. MORE BELOW PHOTO.

Prices in the new 195 Rath Rua housing estate on the Dublin Road start from €365,000 for 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes. MORE BELOW PHOTO.

Daft.ie says house prices nationally rose by an average of 0.8% during the third quarter of 2025. Nationally, the average price of a three-bed semi-detached home in the third quarter was just over €421,000.

Listed prices are now, on average, 5.9% higher than a year ago, 39% above their pre-Covid levels and just 10% below their Celtic Tiger peak.aft.ie says that nationally, housing prices rose by an average of 3% during the second quarter of 2025. The typical listed price nationwide in the second quarter of the year was €357,851, 12.3% higher than a year previously and 40% higher than at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

While prices were on average almost 6% higher than a year ago nationally, Daft.ie says there were some important differences, with the lowest inflation seen – once again – in Dublin, where prices were 4.5% up year-on-year.

Price increases in Munster (+5% annually) and across the four other major cities (+5.8% on average) were also below the national average, which was dragged up by substantially larger increases in Leinster (outside Dublin; +7.2% annually) and Connacht-Ulster (outside Galway; +8.7% on average).

Inflation has eased compared to the start of the year but remains well above inflation in the wider economy. As before, this is related to a significant lack of supply. On September 1st, there were a total of 11,925 second-hand homes for sale nationwide, up marginally (1%) on the same date a year previously. Nonetheless, availability is less than half the 2015-2019 average.

The Daft Report was first launched in 2005 and is seen as one of the barometers of the property market. It combines information from the Daft.ie archives with data from Ireland’s Residential Property Price Register.