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THE SLOWDOWN in property sales has forced estate agencies to diversify into property lettings, Nama valuations and any other money-making operation to keep the show on the road.

Commercial property agent Bill Phelan of the long-established Phelan Partnership of Dawson Street has gone one step further by setting up a dating agency with his partner Jennifer Haskins.