Keith Lowe: The market is recovering, but is still some way off from operating normally

The residential property market in Dublin performed better this year than it has in any of the proceeding seven years since the property market crashed in 2006. Things turned for the better in the second half of 2012, and recovery has continued since then.

Following the property crash in 2006, the property market more or less stalled. There was no building as developers were – in the main – insolvent, house and site ...