House of the week

Take this little beauty at Ardbrack, for instance. You won’t get in here with much change out of €1.2 million, even though in style, this house is replicated everywhere. The difference? Location, location, location. The property has been used as a sometime home by retired ex-pats who’ve beaten a retreat here from the mugginess of Florida in the hurricane season. Now even Floridian mugginess is looking more attractive than stair-rod rain, so their exclusive Ardbrack home, called September, is on the market with Cohalan Downing.
And what can you say about Ardbrack — the hyperbole cupboard is laid bare when it comes to describing the views, the aspect; the sheer panorama of Kinsale harbour from this cliff top perch. And despite running the gamut from small and low to high and brash; sugar cube to cookie cutter cute, houses in Ardbrack command seriously high prices as long as they command that view.