Dublin auction sales fall to earth with a bang, while country houses pick up

Dublin houses failed to sell at last week's auctions.

Ballanagh House, Avoca, Co Wicklow: sold for €440,000

Dublin houses failed to sell at last week's auctions. In contrast, almost all of the much more moderately priced country properties sold successfully, writes Donal Buckley.

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After a fortnight where auction sales ran at more than €16 million, last week they came back down with a bang with total sales fetching less than €1.2 million and all of the Dublin houses failed to sell.

In contrast almost all of the much more ...