Tectonic plates shifted in West Cork market

In case you think 'the Boom is Back,' most sales were for close to their asking prices

The c 6,000 sq ft Grainstore on Ringarogy Island near Baltimore sold to an Irish buyer for €1. 5 million, after about two dozen viewings, the majority of them Irish.

THE year 2020 started the same as most years, trying to rustle up new business for the coming 12 months whilst closing sales that were hanging over from the end of 2019.

Then,  news stories started to break about this new virus in Wuhan, China though still a million miles away from our everyday lives. I remember hearing how people in China had started to 'social distance' to keep the virus at bay, and that seemed like such an alien concept to me at that time.