Desirable suburban detached set to attract a veritable flurry of bids

SIX years old, and the first to be offered for sale, no 7 Berkeley is a stand-alone, detached house of 2,500 sq ft within a short walk of Douglas village in Cork.

Berkeley is across the Douglas to Carrigaline road from the large Maryborough Woods residential development and by the rear of Douglas Golf Course, and is one of the smaller niche developments in the vicinity, with fewer than a dozen houses here in all.

Very well finished inside and out, the property has a €850,000 guide price with Hamilton Osborne King: given the slough of buyers out there with e1 million and more to spend on Douglas family houses, expect bidding to pick up the pace a bit on the €850k guide: recent strong sales, admittedly of ‘better located’ homes, saw €1.5 million paid for a five-bed in the Paddocks on Maryborough Hill, and €1.4 million for a four-bed in the old red brick Mount Oval in Rochestown.