And across Northern Ireland\u2019s 11 district council areas, only Fermanagh and Omagh has experienced a recent fall in house prices, with a drop of 1.6% between the final months of 2024 and early 2025.<\/p>\n
Five council areas reported annual house price growth of 10% or over, with the strongest growth in Causeway Coast and Glens at 15.4%.<\/p>\n
The house price index from the NI Statistics & Research Agency said there had been growth of 9.5% in the average price across NI to \u00a3185,037 over the year to March 2025.<\/p>\n
Between the final quarter of 2024 and the first few months of 2025, there had been an increase of 1%.<\/p>\n
Prices vary significantly between Northern Ireland\u2019s 11 council areas, with the cheapest average of \u00a3165,289 in Mid and East Antrim about a third below the average in Lisburn and Castlereagh of \u00a3221,029.<\/p>\n
However, Northern Ireland\u2019s year on year house price growth far outpaced the UK as a whole, though our prices are lower than in England and Wales. <\/p>\n
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Northern Ireland had the highest average house price index in the UK, though our prices are lower than in England and Wales. Photo: Getty\/stock image<\/p>\n
The average UK price increased by 6.4% annually to \u00a3271,000, accelerating from 5.5% annual growth in February, <\/p>\n
Average house prices increased to \u00a3296,000 (6.7% annual growth) in England, \u00a3208,000 (3.6%) in Wales, and \u00a3186,000 (4.6%) in Scotland.<\/p>\n
A provisional figure said there had been 5,467 residential properties sold in Northern Ireland from January to March. <\/p>\n
In Antrim and Newtownabbey, the average price is now \u00a3190,337, up 9.7% over the year and an increase of 1.6% over the quarter. <\/p>\n
In Ards and North Down, there was a quarterly change of 0.7% and an annual change of 5.7%, giving a standardised price of \u00a3209,254. <\/p>\n
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon saw an average price of \u00a3171,009, marking a quarterly change of 1.7% and an annual change of 7.4%.<\/p>\n
In Belfast, the average price is \u00a3170,440, up 0.5% over the quarter and 10% over the year. <\/p>\n
Causeway Coast and Glens\u201915.4% annual jump brought it to an average of \u00a3201,884, while there was a quarterly increase of 1.6%. <\/p>\n
Derry City and Strabane reported annual increase of 12.1% to a standardised price of \u00a3168,394, with a quarterly increase of just 0.5%. <\/p>\n
Fermanagh and Omagh experienced a quarter-on-quarter fall of 1.5%, with an annual change of 8.4% bringing its average to \u00a3175,759.<\/p>\n
Lisburn and Castlereagh, the most expensive district council area, had a quarterly increase of 1.3% and an annual increase of 9.9% to an average of \u00a3221,029.<\/p>\n
Mid and East Antrim had a quarterly increase of 2.5% and an annual change of 10.3%, leaving it with an average of \u00a3165,289.<\/p>\n
Mid Ulster reported an annual increase of 5.2%, leaving it with an average price of \u00a3173,070, but its quarterly increase was just 0.2%.<\/p>\n
And Newry, Mourne and Down reported annual change of 10.9%, leading to an average of \u00a3198,327, which was up 1.2% on the quarter before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And across Northern Ireland\u2019s 11 district council areas, only Fermanagh and Omagh has experienced a recent fall in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[487,778,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-120088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-cost-of-living","9":"tag-margaret-canning","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114546463643770903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}