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.

No 7 Berkeley has very good gardens, with decking and pergola for visual aesthetic appeal, and a south-facing aspect.

Internally, it has a very good kitchen/dining room with sun room off it stretching into the pleasant back gardens, with French door garden access. Elsewhere on the ground level is a hall with porcelain tiling, guest WC, sitting room with gas fire and a bay window, and double doors to a play room or formal dining room, which in turn opens to the decked back patio via sliding doors. There’s also a family room, with second gas insert fireplace, utility and guest WC.

Overhead, two of the five bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms, and the good-sized 17’ by 10’ master bedroom has both an en suite and dressing room.