When Dublin is excluded, the average asking price for the remainder of the country was €250,766, a drop of 2.4%. Prices in Cork meanwhile dropped slightly, by 0.8%, to an average of €218,346, with Cork City representing the exact inverse of that trend, with asking prices up 0.8% to €278,021. “It was a decade that started with rapidly falling prices and closes with gently falling ones,” Mr Lyons said. The northside of Dublin city has an average asking price of €338,291, while a city centre property costs €321,802 on average. The least expensive property to be found in more rural areas — in Leitrim, Longford, Roscommon, and Donegal — with average asking prices of, respectively, €125,603, €132,787, €134,010, and €138,869.

Source: Irish Examiner December 30, 2019 00:00 UTC