The latest Daft.ie Sales Report, covering the second quarter of 2026, contains one number that stands apart from the rest. While prices nationally continued to rise – transaction prices were up 3.2 per cent on a year earlier – prices in Dublin did the opposite.  In the capital, the typical home changed hands for 2.3 per cent less than it would have a year previously. That is the first annual fall in Dublin transaction prices since 2023, and a markedly steeper one than the marginal dips recorded back then. For a market that has risen more or less continuously for…

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