Water frontage puts the wind in the sails of prestigious property prices

WATER frontage has come up trumps yet again in the smooth sales of properties, in West Cork and West Waterford, with the Blackwater now also firmly ensconced as a location for quality lifestyles.

International former Round the World yachtsman Laurie Smith has chosen a beachfront property near Glandore in Cork as a spot to drop a residential anchor in: he paid €1.5 million for Cregg House by Tralong beach, a period farmhouse on 16 acres.

And, heading east and slightly inwards along the Munster coast, the 4,000 sq ft, cut stone and L-shaped barn at Tourin Quay near Lismore sold at a very competitive auction in Waterford last week, making €510,000.