...or try this four-bed 1940s semi just over the road

IF you want an inner-Douglas address and the convenience of being able to walk to town, Droum on the Cross Douglas Road may fit your bill.

Under offer at €460,000, guiding at €480,000 and likely to end up closer to €500,000, it is a four-bed semi, with all-brick facade, dating to the 1940s.

Sheer convenience of location is its strongest selling suit, it has the requisite front and back gardens, off-street parking and a detached garage.

It has two main reception rooms, each with tiled fireplaces and one room has garden access, plus breakfast room (with serving hatch) and compact kitchen, while overhead are four bedrooms, two doubles, the other two are reasonable singles, and a main family bathroom.

At present, the house doesn’t have central heating, so this will be the first upgrade box to tick, and then new owners are likely to look at extension possibilities: they exist here to the back and the side, and towards the garage, and there’s plenty of car parking space to the front.

The house has recently been re-wired, and even though windows were replaced, better matched frames and a non-PVC door would improve the front facade.

Location is at the main Douglas Road end of the Cross Douglas Road, with a good selection of primary and secondary schools, bus routes and more.

And, for those with good neighbours, Droum has a good suggestion: cut back your dividing front wall between your properties by 10 or 12 feet and give yourselves some breathing space for getting cars in and out (see picture).