Sherry FitzGerald and the Varadkar factor

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is living in the same block as the auction apartment

The Bank of ireland branch on Main Street, Midleton, Co Cork
49 William Street, Galway: sold for €2.5 million

A ‘Taoiseach factor’ may have helped to boost the price of a Castleknock apartment which sold at a Sherry FitzGerald auction last Wednesday for €284,000. Before the auction, Apartment 53, Rosehaven, Dublin 15, had been guiding €175,000, which auctioneer Des O’Malley concedes was below the going rate for three-bedroom properties in the area.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is living in the same block as the auction apartment. It ...