Trading up: BLACKROCK, CORK €290,000

HOT on the heels of a recent successful house sale on the corner of Cork’s Blackrock Road and Crab Lane is the detached Crab Lane bungalow Glenville.

New to market with agent Timothy Sullivan at 290,000, it’s a three bed with a surprising 1,480 sq ft, in need of modernising and thus further expenditure.

The location alone usually ensures good viewing interest; just by the main Blackrock Road end of the lane, an early 1900s extended semi-d with everything done (plus a David Kiely kitchen) has sold already since a May market launch with Jeremy Murphy Associates. With 2,500 sq ft of space, but on a compact site, it was guided at 590,000, and is likely to have sold in the low to mid 500,000s.