Different in style and size but for the same price

CARRYING the same asking price as they arrive to market are two different Cork house options. Each priced at €375,000, the offerings are a 1,400 sq ft, dated but decent semi-d with a good, quiet address in Ballincurrig, Douglas, or a larger, 1,600 sq ft, three-bed dormer bungalow high above the city, at Alderbrook, Lehenaghmore off the back of the airport hill.

First up is Glenmore, a solid, mid-1990s built, four-bed semi in the cul-de-sac Ballincurrig estate, with a good west-facing rear garden aspect, two reception rooms, plus dated kitchen and wheelchair-accessible, ground-floor bathroom with shower.

Overhead are three double bedrooms, a single, and a compact bathroom. The €375k price is a good drop below previous offerings here, as some of the best in the Ballincurrig estate hit the €700,000s, dropping to the €400,000s by last year (No 14 here now is priced at €385k.)

An executor sale, Glenmore is new to market with joint agents Alan Browne, of Murray Browne, and Casey and Kingston, who expect good interest, given the setting off the main Douglas road near a range of schools. While Glenmore needs modernisation, it has all the basics, has double glazing, gas heating, and a detached garage.

Sam Kingston, of Casey and Kingston, is also selling the more modern dormer, No 7, Alderbrook, up above Doughcloyne at Lehenaghmore. In great order, and as suitable for a trader-up (thanks to the site size) as to a down-sizer, with its ground floor bedroom and bathroom, this €375k home is 1,600 sq ft, with one ground- floor bedroom and two overhead, all on a quarter-acre site a mile or so from Wilton and the south ring road.