Jet-in and sail-in millionaire buyers putting the sales in super-hot spot Kinsale
![Jet-in and sail-in millionaire buyers putting the sales in super-hot spot Kinsale Jet-in and sail-in millionaire buyers putting the sales in super-hot spot Kinsale](/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829615_23_articlesmall_ArdbackHeights-2_1_.jpg)
Ardbrack Heights, Kinsale |
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€750,000 |
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Size |
138 sq m (1,475 sq ft) |
Bedrooms |
3 |
Bathrooms |
2 |
BER |
D1 |
KINSALE is ending the year on yet another high note, with high-end house buyers coming in on private jets, private yachts, and rocking up in limos.
![SOLD: the chocolate box pretty Annefield House at Ballinclashet Creek, Oysterhaven has been bought by a last-minute US buyer who jumped bids from an agreed sale at €1.85m to €3m in one fell swoop SOLD: the chocolate box pretty Annefield House at Ballinclashet Creek, Oysterhaven has been bought by a last-minute US buyer who jumped bids from an agreed sale at €1.85m to €3m in one fell swoop](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829627_20_articleinline_Copy_20of_20Annefield_20House-Full_20size_20print-60_20-_20FRONT_20PAGE_1_.jpg)
Just sold, quite incredibly, for twice its asking price of €1.5m, to fetch a reported €3m is Annefield House in Oysterhaven, a pristine period property, low-slung, and charming (pictured) which featured in these pages in May, for trade-down vendors.
![Ardbrack Heights has some of the best views in Kinsale Ardbrack Heights has some of the best views in Kinsale](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829591_23_articleinline_ArdbackHeights-6_1_.jpg)
It’s understood that it had gone “sale agreed” at over its launch €1.5m AMV via agents Savills - who have not commented on the transaction - at a handy enough €1.85m with that agreed sale well in train, when a further, higher-flying bidder came to Cork, and made a killer bid, straight in, at €3m, with the previous top bidder, also from overseas, instantly edged out.
![Interior at Annefield House, Oysterhaven Interior at Annefield House, Oysterhaven](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829594_23_articleinline_Annefield_20House-Full_20size_20print-07.jpg)
It’s done and dusted, in less than six months since going on the public market: The additional value of the land, c. 5.6 acres in all, will have brought the total deal up to the €3m mark, making it a pearl purchase in Oysterhaven.
![View from apartment 18B Ardbrack Heights, a 1,475 sq ft three-bed duplex with Lisney Sotheby's International Realty View from apartment 18B Ardbrack Heights, a 1,475 sq ft three-bed duplex with Lisney Sotheby's International Realty](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7661/3830956_8_articleinline_Copy_20of_20ArdbackHeights-20_1_.jpg)
Meanwhile, on the other, upriver side of Kinsale, also just sold in the past week is Leighmoney More House, near Dunderrow (pic, below left): It had carried a €1.8m AMV via Sherry FitzGerald, and is understood to have sold for over €2.2m after good bidding, which may make the Price Register by year’s end.
![SOLD: Leighmoney More House, Dunderrow, bought for €2.2m. SOLD: Leighmoney More House, Dunderrow, bought for €2.2m.](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829552_25_articleinline_Copy_20of_20_JWP1851_1_.jpg)
The purchaser is local and previously sold a Georgian waterfront home, Raffeen House in Scilly, 18 months ago for €4.75m to wealthy US buyer, Thomas C Quick.
![Raffeen House in Scilly made €4.75 million Raffeen House in Scilly made €4.75 million](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829600_23_articleinline_Tommy_RaffeenHouse.jpg)
Tom Quick isn’t, however, the only US buyer with a private yacht to adopt Kinsale of late, and to spend millions of euros on a Munster property.
![SOLD: Sprayfield House at Sandycove, near Kinsale made c €4.5 million SOLD: Sprayfield House at Sandycove, near Kinsale made c €4.5 million](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829657_15_articleinline_1_1_1_.jpg)
The Irish Examiner previously reported the July €4.5m sale of Sprayfield House, Sandycove, to US billionaire James Berwind, also Florida-based, and who visits this side of the Atlantic on his €80m Scout superyacht.
![€80m superyacht Scout tied up at Castlepark marina. €80m superyacht Scout tied up at Castlepark marina.](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829606_23_articleinline_Superyacht_Kinsale.jpg)
It shows at €3.8m on the Price Register, but made closer to €4.5m when the land value is added on, a bit behind the €5.08m paid for Constantia Farm on Compass Hill, which at last appears with a Cork address on the Price Register.
![Ardbrack Heights was built in the 1980s Ardbrack Heights was built in the 1980s](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829654_16_articleinline_Copy_20of_20ArdbackHeights-4_1_.jpg)
Also just sold at the same price level is Ringcurran House, Ardbrack, at €1.85m, sold via Sherry FitzGerald.
![SOLD: Ringcurran House at Summercove near Ardbrack fetched €1.85m, bought at that sum minus an adjoining site SOLD: Ringcurran House at Summercove near Ardbrack fetched €1.85m, bought at that sum minus an adjoining site](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829540_25_articleinline_Copy_20of_2072820021-92A7-4333-BD43-03D0E8FEF6F6.jpeg.jpg)
By this roundabout way, welcome, to 18B, a duplex 1,475 sq ft three-bed apartment at Kinsale’s Ardbrack Heights which, given the above prices, is “almost” entry level at its €750,000 AMV, quoted by agent Eileen Neville of Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty.
![Interior of apt 18B Interior of apt 18B](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829609_23_articleinline_Copy_20of_20ArdbackHeights-13_1_.jpg)
More modest, in good, but decoratively dated order, Apt 18B is being sold by Lisney/SIR’s Ms Neville, for out-of-town vendors who have owned it several decades, using it for holidays, selling up she suggests as they are not getting enough use out of it now.
No 18B is put at 138 sq m or c. 1,470 sq ft offering “comfort, privacy, and convenience, with ample living space and excellent potential for modernization” for the potential new owners, negotiator Ms Neville says, of the mid-terrace duplex.
![](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829612_23_articleinline_ArdbackHeights-14_1_.jpg)
With its rooms painted in yellows, pinks, and greens, coloured bathroom suites, extensive carpets and timber kitchen, it does feel “original” to earlier decades, and currently has a middling BER rating of D1.
![Kinsale is ending 2023 with yet more multi-million euro purchases by overseas buyers Kinsale is ending 2023 with yet more multi-million euro purchases by overseas buyers](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7659/3829618_23_articleinline_Copy_20of_20ArdbackHeights-7_1_.jpg)