The latest Daft.ie sales report shows that the average asking price of a house in Laois is now €225,000, 10% higher than what it was 12 months ago.
The figures are for the first quarter of 2022 and are now 117% higher than their lowest point.
The cost of a one bedroom apartment is now €91,000 (up 7% from the same point last year) and up €1,000 from three months ago.
A two-bedroom terraced house is €121,000 (Up 11.3%) and a €5,000 increase from three months ago.
€167,000 (Up 12.7% and a €4,000 increase from three months ago) is what a three-bedroom semi detached house will set you back.
The average four-bedroom bungalow is €314,000 (Up 3.3%) and €3,000 dearer than three months previous.
While the average five-bedroom detached house is €334,000 (Up 2.5%) and up €11,000 from three months ago.
National housing prices rose by 2.4% on average during the first three months of 2022.
The average listed price nationwide in the first quarter of 2022 was €299,093, up 8.4% on the same period in 2021 and just 19% below the Celtic Tiger peak.
Increases remain smaller in urban areas, compared to rural areas, although the gap is narrowing.
In Dublin, Cork and Galway cities, prices in the first quarter of 2022 were roughly 4% higher on average than a year previously, while in Limerick and Waterford cities, the increases were 7.6% and 9.3% respectively.
Outside the five main cities, prices rose by an average of 12.3% in the year to March 2022.
The increase in Munster (outside the cities) was 13.3%, while in Leinster excluding Dublin, prices rose by 8.7%.
The largest increase in prices in the country was seen in Connacht-Ulster, where prices rose by 20.1% in the year to March – the highest rate recorded for the region since the series began in 2006.
Just 10,000 homes were listed for sale on March 1st, another new low in a series stretching back to July 2006, when online advertising was still emerging.
During 2019, the average number of homes for sale on the market at any one time was just over 17,500.
Just 10,000 homes were listed for sale on March 1st, another new low in a series stretching back to July 2006, when online advertising was still emerging.
Commenting on the report, its author Ronan Lyons, economist at Trinity College Dublin, said: “Inflation in housing prices remains stubbornly high – with Covid19 disturbing an equilibrium of sorts that had emerged, with prices largely stable in 2019 but increasing since.
“As has been the case consistently over the last decade, increasing prices – initially in Dublin and then elsewhere – reflects a combination of strong demand and very weak supply.
“Both new and second-hand supply remain weaker than expected before the pandemic. Combined with unexpected strong demand, due to accidental savings during lockdown, this has driven up prices.
“Additional supply – of all types of homes, for sale but also market rental and social rental housing – remains the only real solution to solving Ireland’s chronic housing shortage.”
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