One line on the Property Price Register looks thin on the page. It carries an address, a date, a declared price and two flags. That is the whole record. The Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA) publishes the file, and Hous makes 183,945 filed sales searchable from it.
The Property Price Register is a filing record rather than a description of a home. It states what was declared for stamp duty purposes and when the filing landed. The register does not name the buyer, name the seller or measure the property. Hous uses the PSRA file under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
What One Filed Sale Record Actually Holds
A Property Price Register record holds a short, fixed set of fields and nothing beyond them. Everything a buyer usually wants to know sits outside the stamp duty filing. Register records run back to 2010, so the same fields repeat across sixteen years of filed sales.
- The address of the property, with the street, the town and the county
- The date the sale was filed with the Property Services Regulatory Authority
- The price declared for stamp duty purposes
- A flag showing whether the property was filed as a new build
- A flag showing whether the filed sale was non arm’s length
Why Does a Filing Date Sit Later Than the Agreement Date?
Because the register records the day a sale was filed, not the day a price was agreed. A buyer and a seller can settle a figure weeks or months before the filing reaches the PSRA. The date beside the price is the filing date. A sale filed early in 2026 can therefore describe a decision taken in 2025.
A Property Price Register lookup on Hous shows that filing date beside the declared figure. The Property Services Regulatory Authority file holds no other date. Each result carries a link back to the regulator release it was drawn from. Open that release and check the filed line yourself.
How Do the New Build and Non Arm’s Length Flags Change What You See?
They decide whether a filed price belongs in a comparison at all. Some new build sales are filed without value added tax (VAT), and Hous excludes those rather than grossing the figure up. The non arm’s length flag points to a sale agreed off the open market, such as a transfer inside a family. Hous keeps non arm’s length sales out of every town and county median.
| Field on the filed record | What the register tells you | What the register cannot tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Address and street | Where the filed sale took place | The condition or layout of the property |
| Filing date | When the sale reached the Property Services Regulatory Authority file | The day the price was agreed |
| Declared price | The figure filed for stamp duty purposes | The asking price or the offers behind it |
| New build flag | That the sale was filed as a new build | How the property compares with a second hand sale |
| Non arm’s length flag | That the sale was not agreed on the open market | Why the parties settled on that filed price |
What the Register Never Records About a Home or Its Owners
Buyer and seller names are never published in the Property Services Regulatory Authority file. The register also holds no floor area data, so no price per square metre can be built from it. Two houses on one street can file the same price for different homes.
- Buyer and seller names, which the Property Services Regulatory Authority does not publish
- Floor area, which rules out any square metre price from a filed register record
- Room counts, photographs and any rating of condition
- Asking prices and agent details, because Hous carries no property listings
How Do You Read One Filed Price Without Over Reading It?
Treat the filed line as one dated data point rather than a valuation. Work through the Property Price Register record field by field. Only then set it beside other filed sales close by.
- Read the Property Services Regulatory Authority filing date first, then allow for the gap to the agreement date
- Check the new build flag before comparing the figure with a second hand sale
- Check the non arm’s length flag before treating the filed price as a market price
- Compare nearby filed sales found by street, town or Eircode
- Open the linked source to confirm the record against the PSRA release
One filed record answers one narrow question. It states what a named property was declared to have sold for, on a stated filing date. The register does not describe the house or price the house next door. Hous publishes a town or county median only where at least 10 sales stand behind it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does one Property Price Register record contain?
It contains the address of the property and the date the sale was filed. It also carries the price declared for stamp duty purposes, plus flags for new build and non arm’s length sales. That is the full register record. The Property Services Regulatory Authority publishes it, and Hous makes 183,945 filed sales searchable under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Is the date on a filed sale the day the price was agreed?
No. The date shown is the filing date, meaning the day the sale reached the Property Services Regulatory Authority file. A price can be agreed weeks or months before that stamp duty filing. When you compare two register records, allow for the gap, because a sale filed early in 2026 may reflect 2025.
Why are some filed sales left out of a median?
Hous excludes any filed sale carrying the non arm’s length flag, because that price was never set on the open market. Sales filed without value added tax are excluded too, and Hous will not gross up a VAT exclusive price. Excluding both groups keeps a town or county median built on comparable filed sales.
Can you work out a price per square metre from the register?
No, because the Property Price Register holds no floor area data at all. Any square metre price would come from another source, not from the filed register record. For the same reason, the file carries no room counts and no condition ratings. Hous publishes only what the Property Services Regulatory Authority release actually contains.
