How land prices size up: Kinsale factor to the fore

Small Kinsale site sells for 20 times the price per acre as Whitechurch offer of larger lot

€30,000 per acre: former Castlelands Construction’s 6.78 acres, at in Whitechurch, are selling for €800,000, with a lapsed 2007 planing grant for 200 homes.

At a time of uncertainty in the residential land development market, two land sales with Cork agency Linsey won’t provide any clue as to sentiment and demand: the value of one is 20 times that of the other.