Irish property prices post annual growth of 6.6 percent in June

Reuters

29 July 2016 at 6:19 am

A construction worker carries out work on scaffolding at 'The Cedars' housing development site in the town of Swords situated on the outskirts of Dublin November 4, 2013. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish property prices grew 6.6 percent in the year to June, their slowest growth rate in six months, the central statistics office said on Friday. Property prices across Ireland are still on average 33 percent below their 2007 peak at the height of the property bubble of the last decade. (Reporting by Conor Humphries; Editing by Alison Williams)