Buyers spoilt for choice at upmarket suburban estate

The drought of house-buying options at the Paddocks in Douglas, Cork, is well and truly over.

The up-market, trading-up location has occupied a certain exclusive niche since it was built in the early 1990s. Re-sales have always been scarce, and demand strong, but now a handful are up for sale.

The biggest and best here go for over and under the €1.5 million mark, and later this month will see one of the largest, towards the end of the top cul de sac section, hitting these pages.

Joining the more mid-market fray at this Maryborough Hill setting (laugh a little hysterically as you say it, for the asking price for ‘mid-market’ here is €925,000) is no 4 Tirol Avenue, a 2,000 sq ft four-bed detached family home built by Holbar, and the Horgan family, owners of the winning racehorse Tirol.

No 4 is for sale with Sean McCarthy ofr ERA Downey McCarthy Murphy, and he also has No 7 on the market, with a current offer of €950,000 on this extended two-storey house.

By way of contrast, the 2,000 sq ft at No 4 is over three levels, with two bedrooms secreted here at attic level, with two first floor bedrooms (one en suite) and main bathroom.

It has planning permission in place to build a 300 sq ft extension at first floor level, over an existing reception room/study, and previous owners had already added a sun room to the back, so the ground floor is part split level. It has a study, sitting room, kitchen, and living room opening out to the sun room/dining room with French doors to the back garden, with patio and double shed.

The kitchen is Shaker maple, and heating is gas fired.

Also in The Paddocks, Lisney has no 13 Tirol Avenue, an upgraded detached house with very fine contemporary kitchen and great main bathroom, on the market since last autumn, guiding at €940,000.

Finally, ERA Downey McCarthy Murphy has a reduced asking price on a big five-bed detached house further out in Douglas, at 18 Dewberry, in Mount Oval Village. The 2,400 sq ft house has been marked down from €890,000 to €850,000 for a speedy sale.