Going, going, gone . . . well not as fast as that. The days when auc tions dominated the sales market are now well and truly over and it now takes 15 full weeks to sell a property in Dublin, according to the IAVI survey.

Sounds slow? Not when compared to the whole of Leinster, where it takes an average of 23 weeks to sell. That’s faster than Munster where agents are taking 25 weeks to sell the average property, while in Connaught and Donegal the figure is a whopping 31 weeks.