All is quite good on city’s Western Road front

ALL wasn’t so quiet on the Western Road front in the past week or so — a house and a site there sold successfully at auction, in competitive bidding, and each made over its reserve.

As part of an executor sale, the 1930s three-bedroom family home Norwood, on Bernadette Row, was brought to auction by estate agent Andy Moore as a simple means of expediting a sale for the family.

Norwood is one of a row of similar Edwardian era houses opposite the Cork Clinic and near the UCC campus, with low-key period internal trimmings.

Mr Moore expressed pre-auction confidence, saying the €250,000 reserve for the home was realistic. In the event, it sold for €295,000, bought in trust by a solicitor.

Private treaty asking prices of neighbouring houses have been in the mid €300,000s, and the next door house Bridgemount is on the market with Cohalan Downing for about €335,000. It already has a mews building built at the end of its garden.

Houses left and right of Norwood have mews properties at the end of their gardens, and Norwood’s site option is 24 metres by 8 metres, with outline planning in place for a dormer bungalow, accessed from the Mardyke beyond Fitzgerald’s Park and by the UCC Sports Centre.

The site had a reserve of €130,000, and it sold in bidding at €155,000, again bought in trust.