Coast is clear to buy a home by the sea

ONE million euro is a price ‘trader-up’ buyers may soon regard as standard, but this coastal Cork home, with an asking price of €950,000, is only being sold because its owner has bought more expensive property nearby.

Built two years ago, this stone-faced home is the kind that gives the ubiquitous dormer design a good name, with feature roof barges, large windows and slate tiles.

Set at Kinure, Oysterhaven, a few miles east of Kinsale, it is the third, consecutive quality home in this sought-after locale to hit the 2005 summer market. The house is within easy commute of Cork city and the airport. The first of the three was the Anchorage, a 1980s home designed by O'Riordan Staehli architects on a seashore acre, which sold for 1.6m via O'Neill estate agents in Kinsale. The second home along the same seaside strip with SWS Property Services is at Kinure, Oysterhaven. It is set on 2.5 acres with a €2.2m price.