Annual residential property price growth slowed to a 15-month low of 9.8% in October, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show.
This is down from a peak of over 15% earlier this year and 10.7% in September, the CSO said.
Prices grew 0.4% in October from the previous month, a six-month low, the CSO data showed.
Dublin residential property prices saw increases of 8.3%, while property prices outside Dublin were 11% higher than a year earlier.
The CSO said that Dublin house prices increased by 8.5% and apartment prices were up by 7.6%.
The highest house price growth in Dublin was in South Dublin at 10.9%, while Dublin City saw a rise of 7.2%.
Outside of Dublin, house prices were up by 11.3% and apartment prices rose by 7.5%.
The region outside of Dublin with the biggest rise in prices was the West (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon) at 16.3%. At the other end of the scale, the South-West (Cork, Kerry) saw a 9.2% rise.
Today's figures show that people paid a median or mid-point price of €300,000 for a home in the 12 months to October.
The lowest median price paid for a home was €148,000 in Longford, while the highest was €620,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
The most expensive Eircode area over the last year was A94 'Blackrock', with a median price of €732,500, while F35 'Ballyhaunis' was the least expensive at €124,500."
Today's CSO figures also show that 4,296 home purchases by households at market prices were filed with Revenue in October, down 0.9% compared with the 4,335 purchases the same time last year.
There were 1,518 first-time buyer purchases in October, an increase of 12.4% on the 1,350 recorded on the same time last year. The purchases were made up of 461 new homes and 1,057 existing homes.
Today's CSO figures show that property prices nationally have increased by 129.5% from their trough in early 2013.
Dublin residential property prices have risen by 133.6% from their February 2012 low, while prices in the Rest of Ireland are 134.2% higher than at their trough in May 2013.
