Open the gate to a great location

IT’S the Killiney of Cork, says Peter Skuse of Cork’s Blackrock suburb, and its Castle Road water-view houses.

The venerable suburb has some of the southern capital’s finest houses, and now with a trendy cafe/bakery on the pier, the foodie/yuppie element is well catered for, too.

No 8 Gatelodge doesn’t immediately jump into that rarified Killiney or even period Castle Road price stratosphere, but “there’s just something very decent and attractive about it, and it might even buck the trend and sell for over its asking price,” says Mr Skuse of the €450,000 property.