1907: £650

1999: £1.5 million

Back in 1907, one of the tall period houses on Palmerston Road, Rathmines, sold for £650 - "an absolute bargain", the newspapers said at the time. Two decades later in 1928, houses were selling for £1,650 but prices hadn't moved on too much by the late 1950s when you could still buy here for around £2,500. The £9,000 achieved in 1968 for a house on the road may seem a steal by today's inflated prices. By the mid-1970s, £19,000 was the entry price on the road, and in 1988, values topped £100,000.

The big houses were mostly in flats at that time. Since then, most of the buyers have restored their houses to one-family use and the neighbourhood has rocketed upwards to its present position as the number one road in Rathmines. Today, terraced houses start at around £700,000, with prices rising to £1.5 million-plus for the semi-detached homes at the Temple Villas end of the road.