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Residential Property Price Index (RPPI)

Survey purpose and legal basis

The purpose of the Residential Property Price Index publication is to monitor trends in prices paid for residential properties sold in Ireland. It is the official measure of house price changes in the state.

The RPPI is compiled in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 792/2016 on harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index, and forms part of Ireland’s international obligations to the European Statistical System (ESS).

RPPI is compiled using data from a variety of administrative sources, no data is collected directly.

Who uses the results?

The RPPI is published monthly on the CSO website.

The principal outputs are property price indices, volume, median, mean and total value of properties sold. The data is used extensively by national and international agencies, Eurostat, government departments, media and general public.

Is your personal data confidential and how long will the data be retained?

Yes. All information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential. The Statistics Act 1993 sets stringent confidentiality standards: Information collected may be used only for statistical purposes and no details that might be related to an identifiable person or business undertaking may be divulged to any other government department or body.

We make sure that it is impossible for individuals or organisations to be identified. No personal information is kept longer than 14 months

The sources and categories of your personal data, where the data has not been collected directly from you:

Stamp Duty Data is provided by the Revenue Commissioners under Section 30 of the Statistics Act 1993.

Building Energy Rating (BER) data is provided by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) under Section 30 of the Statistics Act 1993.

Geographical data is supplied by the An Post GeoDirectory.  

For further information on this survey, your Data Protection rights and how your data is used please contact:

Viacheslav Voronovich, Statistician, RPPI Section, Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E. Tel +353 (21) 4535164 or E-mail rppi@cso.ie

Data Protection Information:

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:

  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission. Contact details: Office of the Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland.
  • The right to request access, rectification, erasure, restriction or to object to the processing of your personal data.

However, because your data is processed for statistical purposes these rights may be limited in accordance with Article 89 of the GDPR. This is due to the fact that the exercise of any of these rights may render impossible, or seriously impair, the achievement of the statistical processing and such restriction maybe necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.

Central Statistics Office Data Protection Officer Contact Details: