Prime location means this property will sell quickly

GOOD location, good house — which means selling No 6, Hettyfield Downs, won’t be too arduous for estate agent Paul Reid of Sherry FitzGerald.

This house is part of a flow of larger properties onto the spring market as those with gardens tend to wait until now, early March, before they sell.

Priced at €525,000, this is the average for a house in this area, it’s close to Douglas, has good schools locally and is poised to take advantage of the huge Mahon retail centre. Just before Christmas last year, a similar house with the same price tag sold for well in excess of the guide, according to the selling agent, Brian Olden of Lisney.

Number 6 is a very generously proportioned house, says Paul Reid and has a floor area of 1,800 square feet. This includes a lounge which is big enough for a dining area on one end, he says, and a sitting room suite on the other.

Next door is a mahogany-fitted kitchen with breakfast counter and the family room, utility and guest bathroom round off the ground floor accommodation.

The upper floor has a master bedroom with fitted wardrobes and four-piece en suite bathroom and access to the front balcony.

Three of the rooms are doubles with fitted wardrobes and wash hand basins and bedroom five has an ISDN line and is perfect as a study. There’s also a main, four-piece bathroom.