Iona Road, Glasnevin, D9

1909: £508

1999: £340,000

Designed with the upper levels of the burgeoning civil service in mind, these impressively large turn-of-the-century redbricks were built by top Dublin builders, Strain & Co, with lots of interesting period details in stained glass and decorative plasterwork. They never quite succumbed to wholesale bedsit conversion and maintained an air of reserved gentility. The area is high on local amenities and so is attracting growing professional families. The first houses on the road sold for around £508 in 1909, rising to £604 five years later. Prices had doubled by 1921, and doubled again to around £3,000 in 1950. No surprise then when the next big leap was also a doubling of prices. In 1989, a house that sold for £88,000 could fetch £162,000 six years later. In 1997, prices crossed the magical £200,000 mark and in 1999 hit £340,000.