Trading up: CARRIGALINE €335,000

THREE reception rooms, four bedrooms, a lot of garden, and a cul de sac setting facing a green, are all to the favour of 56 Wrenville, a detached family home on the Kinsale road just outside Carrigaline in Cork.

The clean-as-a-whistle 1,800 sq ft home is ready to walk-into, says David O’Driscoll of Thomas J O’Driscoll auctioneers, who has just reduced the price of this well-built home by Astra Construction to €325,000, from a shade under the €400k mark.

It is set just one row back from the estate entrance, one of just a few in this cul de sac section, and so is a great safe place for children, notes Mr O’Driscoll, adding that the house has plenty of internal room also for traders-up.