Bungalow measures up in prime suburban location

NUMBER 30, Richmond isn’t exactly the house that today’s demanding, discerning home-hunters want - but its location is so spot on, and its grounds so generous, that viewers will look far beyond what they see on first sight and pay handsomely for it.

It is, at present, a two-bedroomed bungalow, in need of TLC, but with good bones. It is a wholly private mature corner site, in the middle of Richmond’s chicane-like road bends, within a smart walk of Cork city centre.

A broadly similar bungalow, but with a third bedroom already provided at attic level across the road sold in recent months with another agent for over €575,000, and No 30 is a brand new market arrival with Hugh McPhillips of Marshs Auctioneers. He cautiously guides it at €500,000 because of the work it will need.