The biggest home sales of 2021 as the pandemic failed to dampen demand

Review of some of the year's biggest sales with a heady mix of frothy, €1m+ houses sales

Raffeen House, Kinsale, Co Cork, sold late in the year via Engel & Volkers and Colliers for close to its €4.9m AMV.

A global pandemic didn’t knock the sails of the Irish property market in 2021, at any level: in fact, it drove on demand, and values pretty much rose across the board, with a pretty heady mix of frothy, €1m-plus houses sales nationwide and across Munster during the year just ending.

Even if you were a winner of the long-stalled Irish Lotto jackpot, capped at €19m in summer 2021 and with a jackpot rollover going on for over 50 draws by Christmas, you couldn’t have afforded the most expensive house sold in Ireland in 2021 and spent it all on a ‘new’ home.