The three R's, redbrick Ranelagh, Rathgar and Rathmines, Dartry, or the city end of Harold's Cross or Clonskeagh, what type of homes are available in each of the villages that make up Dublin 6?
Dublin 6 is one of the most desirable places to live in the capital. Its amenities include big parks, playing fields, leafy streets, café culture, and proximity to the city centre.
Dublin 6 offers buyers a lot.
Its wide selection of schools also drives demand in a part of Dublin that covers the villages of Rathmines, Rathgar, Milltown, Dartry, Ranelagh and parts of Clonskeagh and Harold’s Cross.
In the third quarter of 2025, property firm Geowax’s latest report put the median sales price paid for a home within Dublin 6 at €789,000, listing it as Dublin’s most expensive postcode.
According to the CAO’s residential property price index to August 2025, the most expensive Eircode area in Ireland was also within the capital.
The A94 postcode, which is Blackrock, has a County Dublin rather than Dublin city address, and a median price of €797,500.
Ranelagh is fast closing the gap. Given that the postcode is in the news, Home and Style decided to find out what your money will buy, should you not have €789,000, but a slightly more modest sum of €600,000 to spend.
A three-bedroom house here may be a stretch, but a two-bedroom townhouse or two-bedroom apartment is achievable, says Eunan Doherty, partner at DNG.
Using data from industry provider Property Week, he explains that within the whole postcode, 418 properties have been brought to market this year.
Of these, just over one third, 139, sold for €600,000 or less. Sixty-three per cent of them, 88 out of 139 units, were two-bedroom apartments.
There are many apartment blocks in the postcode, ranging from converted period properties, some from the era when this part of the city was considered flatland, so many of its period homes had been subdivided.
In Ranelagh, agent Sherry FitzGerald is seeking €485,000 for 18 Ashbrook House on Sallymount Avenue.
The two-bedroom, one-bathroom unit has a B3 Ber-rating.
Situated on the second floor, it faces west, so it will get lots of natural light.
Well-laid out, it is in a small-gated development on a very quiet street of Ranelagh’s main drag.
While it has no outside space, the block has a communal garden, parking, and it comes to market with a garage for storage, to the rear of the building.
Milltown is one of the most desirable areas within D06.
DNG has just sale-agreed a two-bedroom, one bathroom unit on the first floor of Shanagarry in Milltown, a development set along the River Dodder’s linear park.
Set on the first floor, the 56 square metre property had two balconies overlooking the water and a D1 Ber. It’s been agreed in excess of the asking.
All the agents interviewed call out Mount St Anne’s in Milltown as a development to check out.
It’s a mix of apartments and houses, all with direct access to the Milltown Luas stop.
Sherry FitzGerald recently listed 19 Temple Hall, a B2 Ber-rated two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment of 86 square metres for €595,000, although many of its two-bedroom units are now selling for in excess of €600,000.
In Ranelagh, Michael McDonagh, director at Youngs, will be bringing a one-bedroom apartment on the first floor in Belle Isle, in the next few days.
Measuring about 35 square metres, it will be priced in the region of €375,000.
Houses are harder to come by, and competition for them is fierce, from every strata of the market, from first-time buyers with deep pockets to cash-rich individuals who have sold a large house and are ready to move.
But they do come up. DNG recently sold number 6 Stratford Haven in Rathgar, a D1-Ber-rated, 68 square metre two-bedroom townhouse for €525,000 and 18 Armstrong Street in Harold’s Cross, an E1 Ber-rated, two-bedroom, one-bathroom, terraced redbrick of 57 square metres for €453,000.
Both are listed on the property price register.
Youngs Estate Agents recently sale agreed 1 Walker’s Cottages, a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, E1 Ber-rated, 83 square metre, end-terrace, with its own driveway, within that price range and sold 17 Elmwood Avenue, a two-bed, end-terrace house for €480,000.
In Rathgar, Sherry FitzGerald is seeking €525,000 for 8 Highfield Grove, a single-storey, terraced cottage, set in a square with a communal green, hidden off Highfield Road.
The location is first class. It has a west-facing back garden, two bedrooms, one bathroom, extends to 53 square metres and has a G Ber rating.
McDonagh recommends those keen to buy a house to look at Harold’s Cross Cottages, but says these are being “snapped up”.
The buyers are mostly young couples. Those that need work range in price from €280,000 to €320,000, while those in “presentable condition” are making between €380,000 and €400,000, with buyers paying more again for those that are “properly refurbished”.
