Marble porch gives home a dream touch

BUILT only four years, the large family home 18 Abbotswood Downs in Cork is being sold by its US business executive owner, and leaves little for any new occupants to do other than pay up and move in.

The 3,500 sq ft home is in an up-hill location, in an up-market scheme of homes in one of Cork's acknowledged upper-market locations, off the Rochestown Road and Monastery Road. And, to acquire it you'll have to pay out up to or over the €755,000-plus asking price quoted by Pierce Cuthbert of auctioneers Property Choice.

It has a top-level specification, though, with considerable investment in extras such as €20,000 worth of paving around the house.