Land sales review: Rising tide lifts all boats west of Shannon and in borders
Prices rise by over a third in Connacht/Ulster during difficult year
Located near the agricultural college at Mountbellew, Co Galway this 32ac parcel of ground made €13,000/ac
The buoyancy in the land market lifted all boats, and values in Connacht/Ulster rose by over a third to a per-acre price of €9,343.
Auction is the less favoured selling mechanism for disposing of land in the west and border region — private treaty is by far the preferred method.