Kinsale scores sales hat-trick

HAS the turn happened? Are land prices on the way up in some areas? That’s the question being asked by some people this week, following another successful land sale in the Kinsale area.

The auction of a 16.5-acre farm at Ballynamona, near Dunderrow, is the second such sale within a month in south Cork, and it made €15,000 per acre through auctioneer Dan Fleming.

It followed the benchmark sale at Castlepark, Kinsale, on October 12, where 50 acres achieved €16,000 per acre through Joe McCarthy of Irish and European.