Athlo has second go on spring market

UNDER offer, but shy of its €650,000 guide, is Rochestown region house Athlo, being sold by its trading-down owner.

Last year, she sold a half acre site next to this house, and it went for €630,000, just under the 9% stamp duty threshold, and will be a site for one large new family home.

The bungalow is offered again to the 2007 spring market with agent, Valerie Parkes of Savills Hamilton Osborne King, who says it can be bought as is, extended and upgraded, or largely replaced, according to a new owner’s wishes and budget elasticity.

It had been on the market last year, went sale agreed but the deal didn’t close, and it probably went off house and site hunters radar screens.

Vendors, who went through the same trauma of collapsing sales in the second half of 2006, might take comfort from one rescued deal in the greater Douglas area, where not only did a re-marketed €1 million plus home get an immediate January response, it has gone ‘sale agreed’ and signed contracts this time for a little over the sum it was fetching last autumn.

Hoping for the same luck and repeat performance is Athlo, situated above the monastery in part of posh old Rochestown, a couple of miles from Douglas and the ring road, with a very private site.

The existing house has good living space, and just over 1,000 sq ft, including four bedrooms, on a half acre of extremely well-kept gardens.