Lisnalee is top sale of the year

The south-west bucked national trends with rises in 2015 house prices. Tommy Barker looks at the biggest sellers.

Rises in Irish house prices started to moderate in 2015, with a slight dip (0.1% in the third quarter) in the once-runaway Dublin market the first quarterly fall in the Capital since 2012. By end 2015 average house prices across the country probably rose in low, single-digit terms.

However, the south-west region bucked that trend, rising on average by 8% in Cork and Kerry from September ’14 to September ’15; by the end of 2015 Cork city prices may have risen over a full year in double-digit terms, by about 10% it’s reckoned.