Bottoms up as floorless house price doubles
Sold at auction yesterday, for almost double its €200,000 reserve at €382,000, was ‘the house with a hole in it’, a period, terraced, Monkstown, Co Cork, home with missing floors, leaving one big booby trap — or money trap — for the unwary.
The sheer drop from living room door to basement rooms below did not, however, dissuade buyers planning moves on the property ladder, and seven or eight all-cash bidders went after this home in need of a dig-out.
