Bidding hots up for in-demand Melbourn Road semi

HOW high will Mount Brandon go? This semi-detached home in the western Cork city suburb of Bishopstown hit the market guiding €475,000, but the vendors have already seen bids go past €525,000, and it hasn’t stopped yet.

It’s not surprising that the property should be so popular, given the location.

It’s one of those classic western suburb four-bed semis, and the address is 1 Melbourn Road, just off the salubrious Curraheen Road - so salubrious, in fact that one of the neighbours, Gene Fitzgerald, was a long-serving MEP.