DIRECT access to the sea via a boat slip being provided as part of a niche upmarket house scheme gives Pebble Beach a selling edge.

THE bottom half of the property market may be slackening, but that’s not evident at the upper end where buyers seem immune to swings in the ECB interest rate.

THE showhouse opening this afternoon at Gort Dara, in Carrigeen, near Cappoquin, Co Waterford shows how much house you can get for your money when you leave the cities behind.

JUST hitting the €250,000 mark is a three bedroomed semi in Cork with a good, Douglas location.