Price plummets for stunning period home on five acres

NEW houses have crowded in around Clonmel’s Glenconnor House, a period home on five acres of grounds with more than a 40% price drop — down to a quoted reserve of €850,000.

That price level (it had failed last year to sell at a c €1.5 million AMV) equates to the launch price in summer last year of some of the larger new homes in Clonmel’s adjacent Parklands scheme, built on part of Glenconnor’s original lands. Some of that scheme’s best offerings were put up for sale ranging in price from €800,000 to over €900,000, the latter for a 3,700 sq ft five-bed showhouse of 3,700 sq ft.

Now, sales might have been understandably sluggish for those new offerings, but for in or around the€850k level, opportune buyers can get the original of the species, some 8,400 sq ft of Georgian home/property, Glenconnor itself, with accommodation on two levels above basement, and with eight first-floor bedrooms as well.