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Fri 07 Jul 2007Property boom to calm downOpen for Business/Northern Ireland:What do you get when you add five interest rate hikes in less than 12 months and a near 50 per cent rise in house prices in roughly the same period? Answer: the Northern Ireland housing market.A market which in the last year has defied the critics, stunned the analysts and left house sellers with more cash in their pocket than they once - not so long ago - could only ever have dreamed about.