Market for farmland sails on through the doldrums

With multi-million euro property sales continuing in the countryside, Conor Power examines why the market for farmland didn’t sink

AS demand for housing and development land languishes in the doldrums, awaiting the next fair wind, the market for agricultural land sails on.

All the more impressive is that it isn’t a boom market, with the kind of spectacular economic growth that only raises suspicion due to our painful experience of a property boom hard landing.