Agent: Gunne Residential

Number of properties on the books: 30

People are looking for: first-time buys for under €317,500

Fastest sale: three-bed period terrace on Lower Northbrook Avenue - sold in a week for €425,000

Most expensive property: €475,000 for 11 Charleville Avenue, a designer-owned two-bed with a south-facing garden

Cheapest property: 42 Ballybough Road. A two-bedroom mid-terrace house in walk-in condition with west-facing courtyard. Quoting excess €275,000

What won't shift? Just gone after over three weeks, a three-bedroom house which needed a lot of work

Average rent for a two-bedroom property: €850

Daytime North Strand: Fairview Park, Westpoint Gym, Clontarf seafront, 15-minute walk to the city centre. Coffee at Javaholics in Fairview and lunch at Let's Eat on North Strand Road

After dark: a pint at Clonliffe House, eat out at The Harbourmaster, the Excise Bar in the IFSC or the city centre. Nightly entertainment at Clontarf Castle

Issues: the bin tax

in conversation with Kate McMorrow