Time to buy in Daffodil Fields

WELL, there’s one at least comes along each spring with impeccable timing. This time no 30 Daffodil Fields is the first four-bed detached to burst onto the selling season, in tune with nature’s equivalent, hosts of golden daffodils.

Set just beyond the Poulavone roundabout at the start of Ballincollig, Co Cork, Daffodil Fields has been a favourite place to trade up since the mid-1990s.

It was developed by Fleming Construction, who paid what was then a record price for the land (£100,000 an acre, versus €1 million-plus an acre now for comparable land).

Peter Skuse of Cahalane Skuse is now selling no 30 with a €530,000 price guide. He says it is the only such offering in the scheme of around 60 houses, though a four-bed semi recently sold at about the €400,000 mark.

Daffodil Fields was one of Fleming’s first forays into Cork city, and now it is firmly established in Cork, Dublin’s affluent southside, in Waterford and elsewhere, as well as being the developers of the Fota Golf and Spa resort and exporters of steel frames.

No 30 is a fine family home, faced with a part-brick and part tile-hung finish, with master bedroom en suite, two reception rooms plus kitchen/diner, utility and guest WC.

It has wood floors (pine upstairs, oak downstairs) and a grand walled-in back garden with shed, decking and patio area, with old stone sets featuring in the landscaped beds, all ready to cradle the daffodil bulbs.

“No 30 has been very well maintained and kept up to speed, it will put a spring in any buyer’s step,” said Mr Skuse.