What you'll find
Terraces and older houses around the harbour and town centre, family estates and newer developments, and a lot of rural houses, farms and sites across the Kingdom of Mourne, from Annalong to Attical.
Who buys here
Local families and first-time buyers, people working in fishing, seafood processing, farming and building, and buyers looking for a holiday home near the mountains.
Getting about
There's no railway. The coast road runs north to Newcastle and west to Warrenpoint and Newry.
Mortgage points to note
- Fishing income. Many fishermen are paid as share fishermen, which makes them self-employed, with income that varies by season and catch. Lenders want accounts, usually for two years, and some understand this work much better than others.
- Farm and family businesses. Farm accounts, subsidies and land are read differently from lender to lender.
- Self-builds and rural homes. Building on a family site is common. Stage-payment mortgages, private water and septic tanks all narrow the field of lenders.
- Holiday cottages. Letting to visitors needs a holiday-let mortgage, not an ordinary buy-to-let.
Nearby
See also Newcastle, Warrenpoint and Newry.
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