Property for sale in Cork

Cork market pulse

In plain words: Cork prices are still climbing — up +8.4% on a year ago — and around 132 homes change hands every week. The newest weeks always undercount slightly: sales can take a few weeks to reach the register.

Sold prices by quarter

Source: Property Price Register (PSRA). New-build prices are registered excluding VAT. The current quarter is still filling in.

The most and least expensive parts of Cork

Median sold price over the last 12 months. Areas with fewer than 30 registered sales are excluded — small samples make dishonest tables.

Fastest and slowest growing areas

Median sold price, last 12 months vs the 12 months before (minimum 30 sales in each window). County-wide, Cork grew 6.8% on the same measure.

Why the winners win and the losers lose, from the register itself. Blackrock's +19% is half repricing, half disappearance: a year ago 43 Blackrock homes sold under €350,000 — in the last 12 months, just 16. The cheap end of the Marina suburb is simply gone, while the waterfront keeps posting trophies (Rose Lodge, €3M, June). The slow list is really two different stories: in Bishopstown the top end went quiet (€600k+ sales halved) just as a big new scheme finished selling, and Douglas and Ballincollig are where Cork actually builds — hundreds of new homes a year landing at €430k–€440k anchor the whole price ladder. Steady supply, steady prices: the best argument on this page for building more. Crosshaven's minus sign is 39 sales of noise — its €600k+ count actually rose.

Why lists like this need checking: an earlier draft showed “Carriganarra +38%” as the fastest-growing area. On inspection, Carriganarra is a townland of Ballincollig and nearly all its register entries are one new housing estate selling in phases — the cheaper phase sold first, the dearer phase second. Nothing there got 38% more valuable, so we removed it. We check every outlier the same way.

The Kinsale file: a real Mounjaro side effect

Kinsale isn't just Cork's prettiest market town — it's the county's top table, and something is happening there. Behind the harbour and the Michelin stars sits an industrial anchor almost nobody mentions: Eli Lilly's Kinsale campus at Dunderrow makes the active ingredient in Mounjaro and Zepbound, the weight-loss medicines rebuilding Lilly into one of the world's most valuable companies. How big is that anchor? When Lilly applied for a temporary 360-space car park this summer, its consultants' planning report put the average headcount at 1,920 people on site every day — a daily workforce more than a third the size of the town itself. Those people must be living somewhere. The register shows what that looks like on the ground.

The top end is the engine. Every headline sale of the last two years:

• Trade Winds, Scilly€4,915,000 · 2026-04
• Valley House, Sandycove€4,990,000 · 2024-10
• Sprayfield Cottage, Sandycove€3,176,500 · 2026-02
• Sandycove Cottage, Sandycove€2,820,000 · 2025-03
• An Carrig, The Ramparts€2,500,000 · 2025-08
• Currahoo House, Currahoo€2,500,000 · 2025-07
• Leighmoney More House, Dunderrow€2,450,000 · 2025-09
• 9 Ardbrack€2,000,000 · 2025-10

Note the addresses: Sandycove and Scilly are the water; Leighmoney More is Dunderrow — the plant's own townland.

How unusual is that? We counted every second-hand sale in Ireland over €2 million in the last 24 months — single homes only, bulk deals and register glitches excluded: 584 sales, and Dublin took 498. Of the 86 in the rest of the country, 22 were Cork — and 10 of Cork's 22 were Kinsale and its coves (Sandycove, Oysterhaven, Nohoval). A town of five thousand people out-sells 21 entire counties at the €2 million mark.

And we can finally say something about who is buying. The register never names names, but the CSO's stamp-duty data splits household buyers by Eircode — and P17 reads like nowhere else in Ireland. In 2025 just 18% of Kinsale purchases were first-time buyers against 39% nationally — half the national share. 68% were movers — trade-up money — against 51% nationally. And 14% were non-occupiers — second homes, holiday houses, lets — who paid a median of €435,000 where the national non-occupier pays €250,000. Elsewhere the absentee buyer picks up a cheap flat; in Kinsale they buy the whole house. Company and fund purchases aren't published below county level, so that slice stays invisible.

Two honest notes, because a good story invites bad numbers. First, new-builds: for years Kinsale barely built (9–16 registrations a year since 2022) — then Park Laurence, a new scheme on the edge of town, completed this year: 27 homes registered since May at €331k–€493k, median €427,000. That's real volume for a town this size — but it sells well below the €510,000 resale median, so it's widening the door into Kinsale rather than driving the top of it. The €2M tide is its own weather. Second, the buyer split above covers households only — it can't tell you whether the trade-up money is pharma money, Dublin money or American money. What the register names is the houses, and the houses say the money keeps coming.

What your money buys in Cork

Median asking price by bedroom count, from listings live today. The three-to-four-bedroom jump costs €135,000 in Cork right now.

The most expensive home on the market: Coolmain Castle, Kilbrittain Co. Cork at €7,500,000. The biggest home sale on the Price Register since 2020: Ballynatray House, Youghal — €29,250,000 in 2024, a one-off estate sale. Among ordinary homes the record belongs to Seaspray, Scilly, Kinsale at €5,500,000 (2024) — Kinsale addresses hold five of Cork's ten biggest house sales.

Bulk registrations (whole blocks bought as one register row) and obvious register errors are excluded — one Glanmire estate house is registered at €28.2m while every neighbour sold for €412k–€585k.

For sale in Cork now

485 of the 2,901 homes for sale in Cork have a video tour. A few of the current listings:

€3,950,000

Glebe , Aughadown, Skibbereen, Co. Cork

House · ▶ video tour

€2,500,000

Drombeg , Glandore, Co. Cork

House · ▶ video tour

€2,000,000

Waterloo House, Navigation Road, Mallow, Co Cork, P51 EW99

8 bed · 7 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,850,000

Oak Lodge, Middle Glanmire Road, Montenotte, Cork City, T23X4YX

5 bed · 4 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,750,000

The , Lower Road, Scilly, Kinsale, Co. Cork

2 bed · 2 bath · Terrace · ▶ video tour

€1,750,000

Moonrock, Coast Road, Fountainstown, Cork, P43 W400

4 bed · 5 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,650,000

Silver Apple, Weavers Point, Crosshaven, Co Cork, P43RP21

5 bed · 4 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,595,000

Beechville House Brookwood, French Furze, Carrigaline, Co. Cork, P43K277

5 bed · 5 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,500,000

Sea House, Harbour View, Kilbrittain, West Cork, P72 HC79

6 bed · 4 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,500,000

Town-Plots, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Exceptional Contemporary Home with Pan

3 bed · 3 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,500,000

Kilroan House, Brookhill, Glanmire, Co Cork, T45 RX48

10 bed · 5 bath · House · ▶ video tour

€1,450,000

Dunmanus House, Dunkelly West, Goleen, Co Cork, P81 N277

4 bed · 5 bath · House · ▶ video tour

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