Sub-€300,000 four-bed semi in desirable city suburb

A WHOLE bunch of space is offered at Villa Elena — a four-bed semi-d, with older style rear and side extensions, for a sub-€300,000 price guide.

The mid-1960s house is at 15, Glendale Grove, facing an open green in the Glasheen suburb of Cork — just a walk from the CUH and Wilton Shopping Centre, with UCC and CIT colleges also within an easy strike on a bike.

Estate agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing quotes an AMV of €295,000, and so is clearly priced to sell at that level, though it probably needs some upgrading.

The Glendale address is popular and quiet, and the house has front and back gardens with off-street parking — though the garage has been converted to become a fourth bedroom. Other accommodation includes two reception rooms, one front, the other back, a simple kitchen with an even more simply built sun room off it, ground floor loo and three overhead bedrooms.

As it stands, the house has oil heating, double glazing, pleasant mature gardens and an aspect looking onto a green — and location and value.