Trading Up: Ballintemple, Cork €550,000
Set by an expanse of immaculately maintained green with floral bursts, Temple Vale’s several dozen detached family homes were built in the 1970s by a Paddy Walsh, and compared to subsequent schemes which followed around Ballintemple, it’s very low-density.
The location’s very strong, and very private, off Beaumont Drive and Beaumont Crescent near Dundanion Road (where builder Ger McNamee of Lucen Homes is due to build four luxury homes on a prime corner bungalow site.)
A family home for decades, No 6 Temple Vale is fresh to market with estate agent Tim Sullivan, and is close to the ‘dog-leg’ into another 1990s development of detacheds homes, around another green called Berkeley.
Corner-set No 3, needing lots of doing up, went to market in 2016, guiding €550,000, and that’s the price point too for 2017’s arrival, No 6 Temple Vale.
It’s a well-kept, albeit an old fashioned four-bed of c 1,700 sq ft, with an 18’ by 13’ front sitting room with marble fireplace next to a dining room, there’s also a lounge/TV room, older era kitchen, a guest loo, and there’s a garage alongside, holding out extension hopes.
Overhead are four bedrooms, two of which have wash basins, plus main family bathroom. There are gardens front and back with the rear one a decent size, walled in.
Houses here are for keeps
