Average house price compared with annual pay
Calculated7.33×
Based on 2025
+1.7% vs previous year
Average home sale price divided by one person's average annual pay. It does not say how much a bank will lend.
Housing & Homelessness
How many homes are being built, what are people paying for housing, and how many people need housing support?
Explore more Irish data and compare different topics.
At a glance
House prices, new homes and how many people or households need housing support.
Homes completed in the past year
38,792
Latest data: Q3 2026
For comparison, the higher end of an ESRI estimate is about 50,500 homes a year. Read the ESRI research
Housing support — separate measures
Emergency accommodation (PASS)
17,885people
As of August 2026
HAP active tenancies
49,663tenancies
As of December 2025
Social housing net need (SSHA)
61,719households
As of November 2025
These figures count different things and cover different dates, so they cannot be added together.
Building new homes
How many homes are started and how many are finished? Both are shown by quarter so you can compare the trends.
Homes started and completed each quarter
Ireland·Latest data: started Q3 2026 · finished Q3 2026·Homes
The green line shows homes started and the blue bars show homes finished. Both use three-month periods.
Data notes & limitations
These figures count homes where building work has started, not homes that are finished.
Homes started in one quarter may take a long time to be completed.
Completed homes are newly built homes that are ready for use. The total counts each home once.
The housing-demand comparison elsewhere on this page is a research estimate, not a figure counted by the CSO.
We add up the monthly starts into three-month totals. A quarter is only shown for starts when all three months are available. Starting a home and finishing one happen at different times.
New homes by type
Ireland·2011–2026 · Latest data: Q3 2026·Homes
New homes completed each quarter, grouped into individual houses, houses in estates and apartments.
Data notes & limitations
Completed homes are newly built homes that are ready for use. The total counts each home once.
The housing-demand comparison elsewhere on this page is a research estimate, not a figure counted by the CSO.
House prices and rents
See how house prices are changing and how rents on new tenancies compare with rents on existing ones.
Rents for new and existing tenancies
Ireland·2022–2026 · Latest data: Q1 2026·€ per month
Average monthly rents for new tenancies compared with rents for existing tenancies.
Data notes & limitations
Average monthly rent on new tenancies, using published Residential Tenancies Board and ESRI figures.
The figures are adjusted to make rents in different periods easier to compare.
Average monthly rent on existing tenancies, using published Residential Tenancies Board and ESRI figures.
This series begins in 2022.
The shaded area shows the gap between the two averages. Individual rents may be higher or lower.
House price change over a year
Ireland·2021–2026 · Latest data: August 2026·%
How much house prices have risen or fallen compared with the same month a year before.
Data notes & limitations
These figures compare house prices with the same month a year earlier.
The most recent three months are provisional and may change as more property sales are recorded.
The three most recent months may change as more sales are recorded. A figure above zero means prices are higher than a year ago.
Homelessness and housing support
Emergency accommodation, help with rent and rough sleeping are different situations. Each is counted separately.
People in emergency accommodation
Ireland·2024–2026 · Latest data: August 2026·Persons
People staying in emergency accommodation during the monthly count week. This does not include people sleeping rough.
Data notes & limitations
The Department of Housing's monthly count includes adults and dependent children in emergency accommodation.
It does not include everyone experiencing homelessness, such as people sleeping rough.
Tenancies receiving rent support (HAP)
Ireland·2018–2025 · Latest data: December 2025·Active tenancies
Number of rental tenancies receiving Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).
Data notes & limitations
These are active tenancies receiving Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), using published Government figures.
New figures are not released every month, so the dates between observations can vary.
New figures are published at different intervals. The line connects reported figures but does not mean a new count was made every month.
People sleeping rough in Dublin
Dublin·2022–2026 · Latest data: April 2026·Persons
People counted sleeping rough in Dublin during each survey week. The figure is for Dublin only.
Data notes & limitations
These are Dublin counts carried out over a week by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
They are not a total for Ireland, and the counting method differs from older single-night surveys.
These counts cover a week, not a single night. Older surveys used a different approach, and this chart does not give a total for Ireland.