Get in on the ground floor for this period apartment

AMONG the several clichés for buying a first home are phrases like ‘first rung of the ladder’ and ‘getting in at the ground floor.’

Well, while 2 Rock View Terrace in Cork’s Montenotte fits those phrases, it’s possible buyers may not be fledgling buyers at all, but older people just wanting a base in a fine old suburb of Cork city.

The property is a ground floor apartment in one on Montenotte’s larger old homes, in a quiet, set-back part of Montenotte Road.

It’s quite comparable to its modern apartment equivalents in many respects, in size and layout, and has two bedrooms, a bathroom, a decent-sized 19’ by 13’ living room with buffed up old floor boards and a cast iron fireplace. The kitchen has modern, cream-painted units.

There’s parking to the front, with side access to the rear garden, which is shared between all three apartments owners in the building - but this ground floor unit is positioned to make best use of it, and has its own private patio space.

Jennifer Bermingham of Noelle Morrison Properties guides it at €230,000.