It is, of course, just about one of the most beautiful houses in Greystones…
And the fact that Mount View is within spitting distance – almost literally – of everything you might need for a happy, healthy life in this town… well, let’s just say we’re pretty damn envious of the lucky, lucky scoundrels who got to grow up in this perfect home.
One of those lucky, lucky scoundrels
Despite our pleas for the good people of Greystones to pool together and buy this property as a natural HQ for GG – right in the heart of the action, and right beside the off-licence! – there was ne’er a sign of any such campaign coming to fruitition today, Thursday, May 26th 2016, when this glorious old house went under the hammer.
Withdrawn from auction with an asking price of €625,000, our auction house insider tells us that the house then sold to a private bidder for “a substantially higher figure”.
The only question remains, will this rich buyer see Mount View purely as a business investment, with obvious commercial potential, or does he have a higher calling? Such as maintaining Mount View as a loving, sun-drenched, kiss-ass Greystones home…