One in seven commercial properties vacant in Kildare
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THE COMMERICAL vacancy rate in Co Kildare is 14.3 per cent (one in seven) according to the latest figures.
Of the urban areas in Kildare surveyed, Leixlip and Naas both had the highest commercial vacancy rate (15.1%), while Maynooth had the lowest with 11.4 per cent.
This is still lower than the national average of 14.6 per cent, and identical with the 2024 rates, according to the latest GeoDirectory Commercial Vacancy Rates Report published last week.
The same report showed the enormity required in taking the heat out of the Irish housing market as a total of 33,002 new addresses were added in the State in the 12 months up to June 2025, an increase of almost a quarter (23.2%) year-on-year.
A total of 1,747 of these were in Kildare alone.
Conversely, over 80,000 residential properties were recorded as vacant in June, while just short of 20,000 were described as derelict.
Unsurprisingly, vacancy rates in Kildare’s housing stock are practically non-existent with just 1.6 per cent of residences in the county described thus, second only after Dublin.
The highest commercial vacancy rates were located in the west of the country, with more than one in five empty in Sligo (20.8%) and Donegal (20.3%), while neighbouring Meath (10%) was the county with the lowest commercial vacancy rate, followed by Wexford (10.6%) and Westmeath (12.2%).
