Garden delight with Villa Maria

A GREAT, green and lush back garden comes with Villa Maria – a three-bed semi-d with original interiors, yet also in very well tended condition.

Setting is in the Rosebank estate, at the south Douglas Road end of this suburban park, with a chicane-like bend in its middle and speed bumps to deter traffic from using it as a car rat-run between the parallel Douglas roads.

Top prices here in Rosebank a couple of years ago went over €500,000 for a three-bed semi needing lots of work and getting an extension (one four-bed also went over that sum, and is currently getting a very considerable two-storey extension grafted on) – but the last sale of a three bed was in the low to mid-€300,000s.