Choice at a price

COMPARE and Contrast: two neighbouring houses in Cork’s Landsborough Close allow house hunters the luxury of choice.

However, choice in this Rochestown enclave near Garyduff comes at a price: no 5 has a €500,000-plus guide price with Sherry FitzGerald, while next door no 6 has already sailed past its low €470,000-plus guide with John D Sullivan, and in rapid bidding has this week entered the mid-€500,000s region.

The scheme of large-ish dormer detached houses, was built in the early 1990s by Bride View Developments, with several house types built in cul-de-sac settings.