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House price rise

HOUSE prices across Ireland rose by 11.8 per cent last year, a faster rate than the 9.3 per cent recorded in 2005. But the Permanent TSB/ESRI house price index also shows that prices fell in a number of categories of the market in December.

A breakdown showed that Co. Leitrim recorded the highest rate of growth in 2006 at 29 per cent though this was from a small sample.

Dublin’s rate was 15.9 per cent, while prices increased by only 6 per cent in Sligo.