Strong and steady sales for 2002

AUCTIONEERS dislike property booms as much as the next person, contrary to popular belief, and all of the Kerry agents interviewed for the year’s review expressed satisfaction with 2002’s steady market.

The finance minister’s intervention in December last year helped fuel renewed interest from investors and pushed those sitting on the fence to move, creating buoyant sales in the lower end of the market.

Ministerial interventions aside, it’s the county’s new Development Plans that seem to have put the cat amongst the pigeons in all areas but particularly in South Kerry.