Great Karma at €398,500

A GREAT country location, in an area notoriously tight for planning permissions, and a five bed house to boot — all for under €400k? Must be Karma.

The bungalow home called Karma is in Cork’s Upper Rochestown, on the quick ‘up and over’ road to Monkstown, the harbour and the golf club. The area is home to a select few new one-offs and longer-established houses on good, mature sites. Karma fits into this latter category.

New to market with auctioneer Paul O’Driscoll (who’s made a return to the business in Cork city after running a very successful north Cork firm for a number of years) and who’s now back in the family fold with brother Tom in Thomas J O’Driscoll’s estate agency, Karma is priced at €398,500.

Standing on about a quarter acre, with its back boundary running into fields, Karma manages to fit in five bedrooms in all, two at first floor level, where there’s also a study and bathroom. None of the bedrooms is particularly large, but most have built-ins, and overall condition is very good.

Living space includes a good sitting room, a 17’ by 12’ living-room/dining room with two large windows, and a kitchen with oak units and breakfast table, and ground floor office.

Karma (appropriately, perhaps, given its Buddhist name root) has an west-east aspect, 1,800 sq ft of space, oil heating, double glazing, and the mature site has a detached garage, and a small glasshouse plus steel storage shed, a short drive from Rochestown and Douglas village.