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.

In smart order throughout, it has a simple ground floor layout of large linked rooms.

The living/dining room, right of the hall, is 26’ deep and 15’ wide, with sliding patio doors to the back garden, while across the hall to the back is a good-sized kitchen, and to the front, in what was presumably a garage, is a long, narrow 20’ by 9’) family room with fireplace.

Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, three double size (one with en suite) and a single size bedrooms, plus bathroom.

The back garden has a good south-west aspect, the front garden is gravelled for car-parking and access is good, with the south city ring road not too far away at Bandon Road, and Cork Institute of Technology, University College, Cork, Wilton Shopping Centre and its 24-hour Tesco store, Cork University Hospital, the Model Farm Road Technology Park and other major centres are all within a mile or so radius of the property.