City home exceeds guide price

WELL, the first Cork house auction is out of the way, and it was a sure-fired seller.

21 Richmond, off Cork’s Blackrock Road at the city end, and also just off the equally accessible Boreenmanna Road, was chased to sell for €730,000, well above its early, pre-auction early to mid-€600,000 price guide.

A two-bed bungalow, on a pleasant site suitable for extensions or conversion to two-storey accommodation, it was bought in trust by Coughlan Griffith solicitors, and auctioneers were Cohalan Downing.