Just lay down the floor coverings and you can just move right in

KIDS love a card game called 52-card pick up — it’s where they get you to agree to play with them, they scatter the cards on the ground and tell you to pick up all 52.

There's a different sort of 52-pick up at Yewlands in Douglas, Cork.

It is part of the 600-house scheme Maryborough Woods, developed by O'Brien and O'Flynn, between Douglas village and golf club, and the development which spans a large range of house types, sizes and styles curves over the hill to a second access on Carr's Hill.

Here's the deal at 52: fully-built, but never occupied, it is up for sale and just in need of floor covering upstairs and down as its purchaser is being transferred out of Cork.

It has a price guide of €285,000 with Dan Howard of Dooley and Howard auctioneers and just new on the market, is already under offer close to this sum.

It is a three-bed townhouse, of about 1,200 sq ft, with one en suite bedroom, guest loo at ground level, has a kitchen/dining room, front sitting room with double doors, and has gas heating.

It faces onto a wooded area, has a small front garden with parking and back garden, and is the first re-sale in Yewlands.

It will have a stamp duty of 3% for a first time buyer, or 4% for other buyers, but "the fact it was never occupied is appealing to lots of buyers as they can put their own stamp on it," says Mr Howard.