A retail premises with an overhead apartment on three acres fronting on to the N7 motorway at Rathcoole, Co Dublin, is expected to make in excess of £900,000 when it is auctioned on April 11th by Jackson-Stops. The property is likely to be of interest to a wide range of buyers because of its location and extensive frontage on to the N7 and a side road. Hillview is owned by Murt O'Brien, who has run a successful saddlery and clothing business from the premises for several years. He is shortly to relocate to new premises in Rathnew, Co Wicklow.

The purpose-built property has a cut-stone period style, with the ground floor used as a retail unit and a self-contained apartment on the first floor. Other buildings on site include two loose boxes and a feed yard. Though the site is zoned for amenity use, a number of other uses are open for consideration, including a guest house, garden centre, motor sales outlet, office-based industry or neighbourhood shops.