Down to €580,000 in Ashbrook

IN 2003, big, detached houses on large sites in east Cork’s Ashbrook, near Carrigtwohill, were priced at €500,000. This had risen to €900,000 by 2006, when Amgen was optimistically mooted as a major local pharma sector employer. Prices have been sliding since.

Leugh Lodge, one of the larger of the dozen detached homes in Ashbrook, within walking distance of the new Carrigtowhill rail station, was for sale in October, 2007, for €820,000.

It is back to the market for €580,000, via Clare O’Sullivan, of Savills, who says the site is almost an acre, while the floor area of the four-bed, detached house is 2,650 sq ft, excluding an attic area, listed for storage and with two Velux windows to the back.