The cost of buying a family home has rocketed across the country, despite a marked fall in the number of properties being sold.
Analysis in today's Irish Independent from the Propey Price Register shows a 10% fall in property being sold in the second quarter of this year.
The figures show that just over 8,000 houses and apartments were sold.
Yet prices have actually risen by as much as 14%.
The lack of properties on the market is also said to be pushing prices up with a rise in sales of milion euro homes.
