Ideal trader upper property

WHILE the starter home market may be slow at present, mid and upper ranges houses are ticking over, slowly perhaps, but ticking nonetheless.

A fine example of a big, one-off house on the periphery of Cork city is this one, at Ballymartin, Grenagh. Ideally placed for trader-uppers from the Blarney/Tower areas, the property is just off the main Cork/Mallow road and just a zip up from the city and Blackpool Shopping centre.

It’s on a bus route to town and to the local primary and secondary schools. All important considerations when buying for a family. On an acre of ground that includes a babbling brook on the boundary, this house ticks all the boxes for buyers at this level. It’s on the market with Michael O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald for offers in the region of €725,000.