Forty years ago last month, a story was broadcast on RTÉ News about a new phenomenon being driven by “foreigners and farmers”.
Ken MacDonald remembers it well, as it was based on research produced by his estate agency that showed a new trend emerging in 1981. The number of apartments being sold had almost doubled, albeit from a low base, to 717. And the majority of the sales were in Dublin.
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