Brand new, once-off house only a mile from the city

WHAT is billed as “the closest new house to Cork city centre” has just hit the market and will be ready to move into by Christmas.

The location is the key to its value. After all, the house has only about 2,000 sq ft of space, though the level of finish will be high if the house next door is anything to go by.

Pitched at trading-up families this four-bed dormer bungalow called Kenmare is being built at Ashton Park, off the Blackrock Road near Ashton school, and is one of two houses to occupy the former tennis court of an older adjoining house.