Gunne's guides fall well short

The Gunne agency gets the prize for issuing the lowest guide prices in recent weeks - or for getting the best possible price …

The Gunne agency gets the prize for issuing the lowest guide prices in recent weeks - or for getting the best possible price for its clients, depending on your point of view. It put a guide of £375,000 on a fine Crampton-built semi in Clonskeagh that had been lavishly refurbished. After 250 parties visited it on the first weekend of viewing, it raised the guide price to £400,000. It sold earlier this week for £505,000. On the same day, Gunne sold a four-storey house in need of refurbishment on Adelaide Road, Dublin 2, for £705,000. The guide price here was £450,000. Meanwhile, Sherry FitzGerald got £500,000 for a Crampton-built semi at 84 Morehampton Road. That guide price was a little shy too - just £365,000.