A decade of property boom

Tommy Barker finds points to ponder in a review of an extraordinary decade.

MOST property market surveys look on rises on a year-to-year basis, so one looking back on a decade of growth is of particular interest. And, its findings make for startling, and stark, reading.

Over the past 10 years, house prices in the Cork region increased four and five-fold from their 1995 base, serving as a microcosm of the national house price inflation rates.