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Fri 01 Jan 2007Increase in Fingal home-building masks shortagesThe number of new homes built in the Dublin area in 2006 rose to about 18,000 - but they were built mostly in Fingal and the figures mask a continuing lack of supply on the city's southside.That is one of the key findings of a study, Urban Sprawl and Market Fragmentation in the Greater Dublin Area, published by the Society of Chartered Surveyors.