According to an analysis of more than 26,000 apartments due to be built in Dublin within the next seven years, prices are set to rise well beyond the mortgage-borrowing capability of many typical first-time buyers.  Dr Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer in Planning and Development at Technological University Dublin spoke to us this morning.

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