New year bid could turn corner

BACK up for swift 2007 bids after a pre-Christmas ‘sale agreed’ didn’t close, no 47 Central Avenue at Bishopstown, in Cork, is a classic semi-d, with add-ons.

Best attributes are the location, a corner site with great aspect, and a conservatory to the side.

No 47 is on the market with Dennis Guerin of Frank V Murphy & Co, who seeks offers over €585,000. It had reached about €600,000 before hitting tangles. Indicating local values, the adjoining semi no 49 sold also last year for €635,000, just under the 9% stamp duty threshold.

No 47 is near Cork University Hospital, and the Cork Institute of Technology, shops, restaurants, sports amenities and schools.

It is a large home and has a garage part-converted with hardwood front door and window. A rear lobby leads to a west-facing conservatory.

With a part-brick facade and porthole window by the entrance, it has an enclosed porch, oak floor in the hall, two reception rooms, one front, one to the back, both with fireplaces and ceiling coving, a kitchen/breakfast room, guest WC with shower. The PVC conservatory to the side is compact, at 12’ by 8’.

Three of the four bedrooms are doubles with built-ins for storage.