Trading up: Browningstown, Cork; €385,000

GOING on recent sales activity and bidding, the queue will have already formed outside the door of Annville, an extended semi-d in Browningstown Park West, off Cork’s Douglas Road.

Size: 139 sq m (1,500sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 1 

Bedrooms: 3 

BER: D2

It comes to market close on the heels of another, immaculately upgraded three-bed semi also in the same area, and at the same €385,000 asking price.

That other c 1,100 sq ft super-smart three-bed’s under offer, at over €410,000, after very strong viewings, mostly with traders-down.

Annville may have a wider appeal, to families, as it was extended in 2002 at ground level with airy kitchen/dining space as a result, facing west at the back also, so the aspect’s spot-on, says agent Mark Rose of Rose Properties.

Annville has 1,500 sq ft, and the attic has been upgraded for various uses, although access is via a Stira coming up in its middle, with railings around it, and even as a storage/den it’s going to prove very useful.

There’s also storage in the utility and attached garage, with scope for a ground floor guest loo out here too.

It’s in overall very good condition, with granite tops on maple kitchen units, and has two pleasant reception rooms, two double bedrooms plus a single and an upgraded family bathroom, and the hall has a parquet floor.

There’s a brick paved front drive, and a decked west-facing rear patio and good-sized back garden too.

VERDICT: After its 2002 extension, it’s got wide appeal: this Annville could go hammer and tongs in bidding.