Dublin (Dublin City Council area), Ireland

Dublin will tell anyone who owns a building for €5 a folio and publishes every residential sale with its address for free — so the public record shows that 202 apartments at Spencer Place changed hands for €88.45 million on 1 August 2025, and leaves the buyer's name a €5 folio away.

8 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 30 sources · 8 tier A · prepared 2026-10-04

Can you find out who owns it?

Ireland's Land Register is public by statute. Tailte Éireann — the 2023 merger of the Property Registration Authority, the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland — states that 'as the Land Register is a public record, any person may inspect the folios and maps, on payment of the prescribed fees via LandDirect', and the Land Registration (Fees) Order 2012 prices an inspection of a folio, which names the registered owner, the property and the burdens on it, at €5, with the online map search free and a names-index search another €5. There is no bulk owner dataset at any price. Prices are more open than owners: the Property Services Regulatory Authority's Residential Property Price Register publishes the date, price and address of every residential sale since 1 January 2010 as filed for stamp duty, free to search and download, but it is residential only and names no buyer, and there is no public register of commercial sale prices. The valuation list Tailte Éireann publishes for commercial rates names the occupier, never the owner, and its open API carries no names at all — only address, use, floor area and net annual value. Dublin here means the Dublin City Council area unless stated.

Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search€5 to inspect a folio or instrument on landdirect.ie, €5 per names-index search, online map search nil (Land Registration (Fees) Order 2012, items 21, 23 and 24, as published by Tailte Éireann)
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
Sites that forbid taking their data
  • daft.ie — “Terms page could not be opened to quote a clause: HTTP 403 with a 'Security Check | Daft' body to a scripted fetch at /terms and at ww1.daft.ie/terms?d_rd=1. Daft's listings are treated as prohibited and not used; its published quarterly House Price Report and the PSRA's Residential Property Price Register replace them.”
1

The marquee buildings

The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.

BuildingUseOwner Owner typeLast price paid
Wilton Park
Wilton Place / Wilton Terrace, Dublin 2 (Dublin City Council)
600,000 sq ft (IPUT)
 Office IPUT plc (IPUT Real Estate Dublin)
IPUT's portfolio page: 'Wilton Park is our 600,000 sq ft flagship development'; its company page states 'We are the largest owner of offices and logistics assets in Dublin … We own and manage a portfolio comprising over 4.5 million sq ft, with a value of €2.7 billion.' The scheme's own site (© IPUT 2025) names LinkedIn, Stripe and EY as occupiers. Tailte Éireann's open valuation API lists 'Three Wilton Park (Floors -2 to 3) and Four Wilton Park (Floors -2 to 6), Wilton Place, Dublin 2' at a net annual value of €5,511,000 on 22,950 m2, published 4 August 2026 — the fifth-highest office valuation in Dublin City Council. IPUT plc's investors are not named on the pages opened.
 Institution —A
IPUT Real Estate Dublin
25 North Wall Quay
25 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1 (Dublin City Council)
155,000 sq ft (IPUT)
 Office IPUT plc (IPUT Real Estate Dublin)
IPUT's asset page: 'IPUT retained the existing structure and increased the size of the building by 35% to 155,000 sq ft, adding two new floors'; 'The redevelopment of NWQ has been complete since May 2025' and it 'provides A&L Goodbody with a bespoke, world-class 155,000 sq ft waterfront building, which they will occupy for many years to come.' The portfolio page describes it as 'designed to be Ireland's most sustainable office building'. IPUT states on its company page that it owns and manages its portfolio. The folio (€5) was not read; IPUT's own statement of ownership is the source.
 Institution —A
IPUT Real Estate Dublin
Capital Dock
Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2 (Dublin City Council)
more than 690,000 sq ft gross on 4.8 acres (Kennedy Wilson) · 23 floors
 Mixed use Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KW) with an unnamed equity partner
50% held by Kennedy Wilson since 2019 (its own statement)
Kennedy Wilson's case study: 'Capital Dock is one of the largest, single-phase mixed-use developments ever built in Ireland, extending over 4.8 acres with more than 690,000 sq ft of gross space'; plans comprised '370,000 sq. ft. of commercial space across three buildings and 190 high-quality multifamily units across an additional three buildings, one of which is a 23 story tower'. 'In 2019, Kennedy Wilson increased its ownership in Capital Dock to 50%.' In 2017 it sold 200 Capital Dock (130,000 sq ft) to JPMorgan on a forward-funding sale and let 100 and 300 to Indeed. The equity partner is not named. Valuation API: 'Blocks 300 & 100 Capital Dock' NAV €5,059,000 on 17,579 m2 (12 Nov 2020).
 Public company —A
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
1WML and the Windmill Quarter
1 Windmill Lane, Dublin D02 F206 (Dublin City Council)
 Office Hibernia Real Estate Group
Hibernia's asset page: '1WML is Hibernia's home and the building that launched Windmill Quarter in 2017', with occupiers 'including Core, Autodesk, Tang and Pinsent Masons'; the quarter also takes in 2WML, The Observatory and 50 City Quay. The home page states 'We're an owner-operator. We build and manage for the long-term' and 'Our portfolio spans over a million square feet of premium, sustainable workspace across central Dublin', with a portfolio-value counter of '€1Bn'. No page opened names Hibernia's shareholder, so its widely reported 2022 acquisition by Brookfield is not asserted; an SEC full-text search for 'Hibernia Real Estate' returned no filings. The folio (€5) was not read.
 Private company —A
Hibernia Real Estate Group
Liberty Hall
Eden Quay, Dublin 1, D01 E5Y3 (Dublin City Council)
 Office SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union)
SIPTU's own 60th-anniversary page: 'Built by the Irish Transport and General Workers Union and funded entirely by members contributions, the modern Liberty Hall opened on May Day 1965', celebrated at the time as 'the opening of Ireland's first skyscraper'; the page calls the building 'the Union's headquarters' and the site's copyright line reads 'SIPTU Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin 1'. The page does not use the word 'owns', and the ITGWU's succession by SIPTU is not spelled out on it; the union's own description of a building it built with members' money and occupies as headquarters is the basis for naming it. Floor count is not stated on the page. The folio (€5) was not read.
 Institution —A
SIPTU
Spencer Place — Salesforce Tower and Block 1 (North) apartments
Mayor Street / North Wall Quay, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1, D01 F2H9 (Dublin City Council)
 Mixed use Not established
a paid title search would answer it
The one Dublin entry where a public document states the price of a whole block and none states the buyer. The Residential Property Price Register lists '202 Residential Units, Block 1 Spencer Place (North), Mayor Street Spencer Dock', D01F2H9, sold 01/08/2025 for €88,452,722 as a second-hand dwelling at full market price — the largest single filing in County Dublin that year; the register has no purchaser field. The valuation API lists 'SALESORCE TOWER, SPENCER PLACE, NORTH WALL QUAY, DUBLIN 1' (sic) at a net annual value of €8,338,000 on 31,644 m2, published 4 November 2024 — the second-highest office valuation in the council area — and names no occupier or owner. The €5 folio was not read.
 Not established EUR €88,452,722
2025-08-01
PSRA Residential Property Price Register filing dated 01/08/2025 for '202 Residential Units, Block 1 Spencer Place (North), Mayor Street, Spencer Dock', full market price, not VAT-exclusive.
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Property Services Regulatory Authority
Croke Park
Jones Road, Dublin 3, D03 P6K7 (Dublin City Council)
 Institutional Not established
a paid title search would answer it
Left blank deliberately. The stadium's own site says Croke Park is 'the home of Ireland's largest sporting and cultural organisation, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)', that 'for well over a century, the Jones Road ground has been headquarters of the GAA', that its capacity is 82,300 and that its registered office is Jones Road, Dublin 3 — none of which is a statement of who holds the title. gaa.ie's Croke Park page and the stadium's board page both 404. A €5 folio inspection on landdirect.ie would settle it; it was not bought, and the GAA is not named as owner on the strength of 'headquarters'.
 Not established —A
Croke Park Stadium
The Convention Centre Dublin
Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1 (Dublin City Council)
 Civic Not established
a paid title search would answer it
Left blank deliberately. The CCD's own about page says only that 'The CCD opened in September 2010' and has 'hosted over 2,200 events', and its footer carries the Office of Public Works logo without a sentence to go with it. The Irish Times reported on 20 June 2023 that 'John Laing Group … has completed the acquisition of the operating licence for the Convention Centre Dublin (CCD) out to 2035' from the State-backed Irish Infrastructure Fund — an operating licence, which is not the freehold. No opened document names the owner of the building, so none is asserted.
 Not established —A
The Irish Times
2

The core land

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

Dublin's open record is about prices and rates, not owners. The PSRA's Residential Property Price Register gives every residential sale with its address, and Tailte Éireann's valuation API gives the net annual value, use and floor area of every rateable commercial property in Dublin City Council — 19,796 records read on 2026-10-04 — without a single name. Figures below are read from those two files and from the CSO; the valuation sums are ours.

Highest office valuation in Dublin City Council€11,342,000 net annual value
'Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4', 47,005 m2, 4th generation/Grade A office, published 22 April 2024 — Tailte Éireann valuation API, read 2026-10-04. Next: Salesforce Tower, Spencer Place €8,338,000 (31,644 m2); 6 Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge €8,196,000; The Sorting Office, 14 Cardiff Lane €5,549,000; Three & Four Wilton Park €5,511,000; New Wapping Street, North Wall Quay €5,251,000. The API returns no occupier or owner field.
Rateable value of Dublin City's commercial stock€1,509,456,302 NAV across 19,796 properties
Our sum of 'Valuation' over every Dublin City Council record in the Tailte Éireann valuation API, 2026-10-04: 7,599 offices (€654.1m), 7,200 shops, 3,001 industrial, 735 hospitality, 12 central-valuation-list utilities (the largest single entry, €47,980,411, is a public utility with no address). Hotels, pubs and similar are included at their value but, the API warns, without detailed records.
Residential sales filed in County Dublin, 202519,239 filings, €12.93 billion
PSRA Residential Property Price Register, PPR-2025-Dublin.csv, read 2026-10-04: 18,496 at full market price; 3,798 filed as new dwellings. Filings with Dublin City routing keys D01-D13 and D17: 7,021, median €465,000 (D15, D20, D22 and D24 straddle the council boundary and are excluded). Block sales appear as one row — e.g. 'Blocks L J I K F, H1 & H2 Southwest Gate, Naas Road' €169,325,000 (30 Sept 2025).
Largest residential filing in County Dublin, 2026 to date€251,769,370
'Folio DN247776F, Dublin', 3 September 2026, new dwelling, VAT-exclusive, full market price — a multi-unit sale filed as one entry. Next: 461 apartments at Claremont, Howth Road, Howth €217,488,769 (15 July 2026); Blocks A, B and C Newmarket Yards, D08 €189,392,526 (31 March 2026); Grand Canal Harbour apartments, Dublin 8 €186,544,903 (15 July 2026). 12,793 filings worth €9.75bn to 3 Oct 2026.
New dwellings completed, Dublin City Council, 20254,519 (4,324 apartments)
CSO New Dwelling Completions NDQ06 via the PxStat API, read 2026-10-04: 2025 Q1-Q4 Dublin City Council 4,519 — 4,324 apartments, 107 scheme houses, 88 single houses (2024: 3,348). H1 2026: 2,293. Fingal 3,607, South Dublin 3,516, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 2,039 in 2025.
Folio inspection fee€5
Land Registration (Fees) Order 2012 as published by Tailte Éireann: item 24 'Inspection of each folio or instrument' €5; item 23 names-index search €5; item 21 online search of the registry map nil; item 22 electronic map extract €120 plus €5 per folio.
5

Who builds the houses

New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.

There is no official ranking of Irish housebuilders, so the table is assembled from the two Euronext Dublin-listed builders' results and the State's delivery agency, as the brief anticipated. Dublin City's new homes are almost entirely apartments — 4,324 of the 4,519 completed in 2025 (CSO) — and the Property Price Register shows how they are sold: whole blocks to single buyers in one filing (202 units at Spencer Place for €88.45m; 189 units at Stonemount Park, Ballyfermot for €80.16m; 128 units in Block B there for €57.15m), with the buyer unnamed. The national volume builders below build mostly houses across the Greater Dublin Area and beyond, and neither publishes a Dublin City figure.

NameTypeHomes delivered, latest reported year (group, Ireland)
Cairn Homes plc
Irish Times, 4 March 2026, on the full-year results: revenue up 10% to €944.6 million 'which included the sale of 2,365 units, up from 2,241 units in 2024'; closed and forward order book 3,452 homes, €1.32bn; guidance of about 6,000 homes over 2026-27 including 3,200 in 2027 (RTÉ, same day). Cairn's own site returned 403, hence tier B.
 Public company 2,365 units sold (2025)B
The Irish Times
Glenveagh Properties plc
Interim results, 10 September 2026: 'we are upgrading full-year deliveries to more than 2,900 equivalent homes'; 'All units expected to close in 2026 are now sold, contracted or reserved'; H1 revenue €239.7m (H1 2025: €341.6m), Homebuilding ASP about €402,000, order book about €1.8 billion. Its Partnerships division builds for the State; a 2025 delivered figure is not on the page.
 Public company 2,900 homes (2026 guidance, all sold, contracted or reserved)A
Glenveagh Properties plc
Land Development Agency
lda.ie: 'The LDA is the State's affordable housing delivery body. It delivers homes on State-owned or acquired land and through homebuilder partnerships as part of its Project Tosaigh initiative. With over 3,200 homes already delivered, the LDA's current project pipeline has the capacity to deliver more than 28,000 new homes'; 'set to deliver almost 3,000 homes in 2027 and over 3,500 in 2028'. Active in Dublin City with the council at Cherry Orchard Point.
 Government over 3,200 homes delivered to dateA
Land Development Agency
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Commercial landlords

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

No floor-area league table exists for Dublin landlords; the three below are the owners whose own pages state a portfolio figure and name Dublin assets. IPUT is the largest and says so. Hibernia is the former Hibernia REIT, now private, and no page it publishes names its shareholder. Kennedy Wilson is the only one of the three with an audited US filing behind it. Irish Life, Henderson Park (ex-Green REIT), Ronan Group and the Docklands' sovereign and pension buyers publish no asset-level statement that opened, so they are absent rather than estimated.

NameTypePortfolio, as each landlord states it
IPUT plc (IPUT Real Estate Dublin)
Company page: 'We are the largest owner of offices and logistics assets in Dublin and are a long term investor with a 60-year track record … We own and manage a portfolio comprising over 4.5 million sq ft, with a value of €2.7 billion'; distributes 'in excess of €100 million a year to shareholders'. Dublin City assets named on its portfolio page include Wilton Park (600,000 sq ft), 25 North Wall Quay, Fifteen George's Quay, 7 Hanover Quay, No.3 Dublin Landings, Tropical Fruit Warehouse, 10 Molesworth Street and the St Stephen's Green Estate.
 Institution over 4.5 million sq ft, valued at €2.7 billionA
IPUT Real Estate Dublin
Hibernia Real Estate Group
Home page: 'Our portfolio spans over a million square feet of premium, sustainable workspace across central Dublin … We're an owner-operator'; counters read '€1Bn' portfolio value and 'over 650k sq ft' of office projects delivered. Standing assets: 1WML, 2WML, The Observatory, 50 City Quay, 1SJRQ, 1 and 2 Cumberland Place, One Earlsfort Terrace, Portview House; developments Harcourt Square (345,000 sq ft, KPMG anchor), One Clanwilliam (285,000 sq ft, 2029), Hardwicke & Montague (153,000 sq ft). Shareholder not stated on any page opened.
 Private company over 1 million sq ft of central Dublin offices; portfolio value €1bnA
Hibernia Real Estate Group
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KW)
Its properties index lists 17 assets in Dublin and County Dublin: Capital Dock, Clancy Quay (Islandbridge), Coopers Cross (Mayor Street Upper), Alliance (South Lotts Road), Grand Canal Quay, 20 Kildare Street, 94 St Stephen's Green, Russell Court, Mespil, 5 Castleforbes Road, Ranelagh, 78 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, The Grange, Vantage and Central Park (Sandyford, outside the city). The Capital Dock case study states its 50% interest; unit counts are not on the index page.
 Public company 17 Dublin assets listed; Capital Dock 690,000 sq ft (50%)A
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
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Looked for and not found

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

  • Hibernia Real Estate Group's shareholder: the 2022 take-private by Brookfield is widely reported but appears on no Hibernia page opened and an SEC full-text search for 'Hibernia Real Estate' (2023-2026) returned zero filings, so Hibernia is typed 'private' and Brookfield is not named.
  • The freeholder of the Convention Centre Dublin: earlier reporting describes the building as owned by the Office of Public Works under the 2010 PPP, with the operating licence sold to John Laing in 2023 to 2035; only the 2023 Irish Times report was opened, and it concerns the licence.
  • Croke Park's registered owner: the stadium site says 'headquarters of the GAA', not 'owned by'; the €5 folio was not inspected.
  • The buyer of the 202 apartments at Block 1 Spencer Place (North), €88,452,722 on 1 August 2025: the Price Paid Register has no purchaser field.
  • The occupier of 'Merrion Road, Ballsbridge', the highest-valued office in Dublin City Council (€11,342,000 NAV): the open valuation API carries no names, and the Occupier Portal is for ratepayers only.
  • Cairn Homes' own results document: cairnhomes.com is 403 to automation; the 2,365-unit figure rests on the Irish Times and RTÉ reports of the 4 March 2026 announcement.
  • Commercial sale prices: the PSRA site links a separate 'Commercial Register' that was not opened; no public register of commercial transaction prices was found, so transaction granularity is per-sale-with-address for residential only.
  • The pack's claim that the PPR CSV sits behind an Imperva challenge: on 2026-10-04 the Dublin per-year CSVs and PPR-ALL.zip (19.1 MB) all served to curl; the challenge may be intermittent.
  • The pack's Kennedy Wilson entry pairs 'Capital Dock / Clancy Quay' as one asset; they are separate (Grand Canal Dock and Islandbridge) and the KW index gives no unit counts.
  • Whether the CSO's NDQ06 local-authority table includes a national total row (32 categories for 31 local authorities): not resolved, so no national completions figure is published here.
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Sources

  1. Property Registration — 'As the Land Register is a public record, any person may inspect the folios and maps, on payment of the prescribed fees via LandDirect' — Tailte Éireann · openA
  2. Land Registration Schedule of Fees (Fees Order 2012) — items 21-25: map search nil, names-index search €5, inspection of each folio or instrument €5 — Tailte Éireann · openA
  3. landdirect.ie — folio and title-plan purchase terms (Registration of Title Act 1964; Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006) — Tailte Éireann · registrationA
  4. Residential Property Price Register — Date of Sale, Price and Address of all residential properties purchased in Ireland since 1 January 2010 (section 86, Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011) — Property Services Regulatory Authority · openA
  5. Re-Use of Public Sector Information — Property Services Regulatory Authority · openA
  6. PPR-2025-Dublin.csv — all residential sales filed for County Dublin in 2025 (19,239 rows) — Property Services Regulatory Authority · openA
  7. PPR-2026-Dublin.csv — residential sales filed for County Dublin, 1 January to 3 October 2026 (12,793 rows) — Property Services Regulatory Authority · openA
  8. Valuation API Explorer — REST interface to Tailte Éireann Valuation data for post-revaluation rating authorities including Dublin City Council (fields: address, category, use, floor area, NAV; no occupier or owner) — Tailte Éireann (Valuation) · openA
  9. GetProperties?Fields=*&LocalAuthority=DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL&Format=json — 19,796 records, 12.7 MB — Tailte Éireann open data API · openA
  10. data.gov.ie catalogue search 'valuation' — lists 'Valuation Office API' (Tailte Éireann) under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — data.gov.ie · openA
  11. Our Portfolio — Dublin CBD, Docklands and Greater Dublin assets with floor areas — IPUT Real Estate Dublin · openA
  12. Company — 'the largest owner of offices and logistics assets in Dublin … over 4.5 million sq ft, with a value of €2.7 billion' — IPUT Real Estate Dublin · openA
  13. 25 North Wall Quay — 155,000 sq ft, A&L Goodbody, redevelopment complete since May 2025 — IPUT Real Estate Dublin · openA
  14. Wilton Park Dublin — 'Welcoming LinkedIn, Stripe and EY' (© IPUT 2025) — IPUT Real Estate Dublin · openA
  15. Properties — Ireland (17 Dublin and County Dublin assets) — Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. · openA
  16. Case study: Capital Dock — 690,000 sq ft, 4.8 acres, 50% ownership since 2019, 200 Capital Dock sold to JPMorgan 2017 — Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. · openA
  17. Sustainable Office Spaces in Dublin — 'We're an owner-operator'; portfolio over a million sq ft; €1Bn portfolio value — Hibernia Real Estate Group · openA
  18. Dublin Office Portfolio — Hibernia Real Estate Group · openA
  19. 1WML, Windmill Lane Office — 'Hibernia's home and the building that launched Windmill Quarter in 2017' — Hibernia Real Estate Group · openA
  20. Liberty Hall 60 — built by the ITGWU, funded by members' contributions, opened May Day 1965; the Union's headquarters — SIPTU · openA
  21. Ireland's Largest Sporting Arena — headquarters of the GAA, capacity 82,300, registered office Jones Road — Croke Park Stadium · openA
  22. About The CCD — opened September 2010; footer carries the OPW logo — The Convention Centre Dublin · openA
  23. John Laing completes deal to operate Convention Centre Dublin (operating licence to 2035), 20 June 2023 — The Irish Times · openA
  24. Cairn Homes to ramp up output by 35% as profit and revenue see double-digit bounces — 2,365 units sold in 2025, 4 March 2026 — The Irish Times · openA
  25. Cairn Homes builds up higher revenues and profits for 2025 — revenue €944.6m, guidance of about 6,000 homes over 2026-27, 4 March 2026 — RTÉ News · openA
  26. Glenveagh Properties plc publishes Interim Results for H1 2026 (10 September 2026) — full-year deliveries upgraded to more than 2,900 homes — Glenveagh Properties plc · openA
  27. Land Development Agency — 'over 3,200 homes already delivered'; pipeline capacity 28,000+ — Land Development Agency · openA
  28. New Dwelling Completions NDQ06 (quarterly, by type of house and local authority) — PxStat JSON-stat 2.0 — Central Statistics Office · openA
  29. Valuation — Valuation Map, Occupier Portal (for ratepayers) and Local Authority Portal — Tailte Éireann · openA
  30. Daft.ie terms — Daft Media Limited · blockedC