A Year Ago, Dublin Homes Sold in 40 Days. Now It's 45.

A year ago this time, if you were watching Dublin listings go under contract, you got used to a rhythm. A home would list, and within about 40 days, a median seller had a signed deal.

That rhythm has changed. Over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, the median days on market for homes in Dublin climbed to 45 days. Five days doesn't sound like much until you're the one waiting through the extra weekends of open houses, but this is the one number in this whole report that actually held up when we ran it against the noise. Everything else in the data moved too, but not by enough to call it a real signal. This one did.

So what happened underneath that number? It wasn't a sleepy market. Dublin actually sold more homes this period, 150 of them, compared to 143 in the same window a year ago, a gain of about 5%. New listings came in at 99, and the standing pool of inventory sat at 143 homes. That's a market that stayed active. It just stopped moving at last year's pace.

Here's the part worth sitting with: prices didn't chase that slowdown. The median sold price in Dublin came in at $1,299,750. Homes still closed close to full ask, at a median of about 98.5% of list price. A year ago, that same measure sat at about 99.2%, but the move wasn't large enough on its own to call it a trend. Sellers here are still getting close to full ask. They're just waiting a little longer to get it.

For a buyer, this is the first real gift you've had in a while: a little room to breathe. Forty-five days is still a fast clock by most standards, but it's no longer the sprint it was. You can see a home twice before deciding. You can ask a question and wait for the answer instead of guessing at it over a weekend.

For a seller, the read is simpler than it sounds. Your home will very likely still sell, and probably close to what you're asking. It's just not going to happen in three and a half weeks flat the way it might have a year ago. Price it for the market that's here now, not the one from last summer, and give it the runway those extra five days represent.

What we'll be watching next: whether 45 days holds, climbs further, or starts drifting back toward 40. One period doesn't make a pattern, it makes a data point. But it's the first data point in a while that told us something real, and we'll keep an eye on whether Dublin's pace keeps easing or steadies out here.

If you're curious what any of this means for a specific move you're considering, in Dublin or nearby, I'm always happy to talk it through with you, neighbor to neighbor.

Kim Deol The Deol Team