Yuletide sale signals season of good cheer

This 72-acre parcel of land at Acraboy, Monard, Co Tipperary, was sold for around €9,000 per acre, very close to the original guide price.

Back in the wild days of the boom it was a fond boast of auctioneers that they took a deposit on Christmas Eve — things were that good.

Well, this fresh new January, Tom Crosse of GVM’s Limerick office is retrieving the same sort of bragging rights, because, he says, he sold a farm “a day or two” prior to Christmas Day.