TRADING UP
Sq m: 184 (2,000 sq ft) - Bedrooms: 4 - BER rating: Pending - Broadband: Yes
THIS is a family home, with all the right credentials, says the selling agent of 60 Coppervalley Vue, in Cork’s Glanmire (pictured).
Auctioneer Michael O’Donoghue of O’Donoghue Clarke seeks offers around €375,000 for the tall dormer and a half home, with part two-storey front facade, and with three well-sized reception rooms thanks to its 2,000 sq ft of space.
One of the four bedrooms is en suite; there are three bathrooms in all, and quality wood oak floors in two of the reception rooms with the kitchen units finished in solid alder.
Other floor finishes include porcelain tiling, and to the back of the house, off the kitchen, is a room-sized section of railed decking for outdoor dining overlooking the mature back garden and play area.
The setting is one of the more popular in the area, says Mr O’Donoghue, and the house is a box-ticker in terms of specification and space, he adds. Nearby, another firm of agents, ERA Downey McCarthy, have a four-bed semi-d at 4 Coppervalley Vue under offer below its €250,000 AMV.
VERDICT: No 60 Coppervalley Vue has everything it takes to accommodate a family looking to trade up to a detached home a few miles east of Cork city.
Sq m: 215 (2,300 sq ft) - Bedrooms: 3 - BER rating: Pending - Broadband: Yes
WHEN it comes to hi-spec features and creature comforts, West Ridge Lodge at Muckross near Killarney cannot be found wanting.
This very different contemporary home, built four years ago by a carpenter is spacious, stylish, bright and open plan with double height ceilings in the living areas and a high level of glazing. The features which stand out most include a German high gloss red kitchen and a four person hot tub which is situated inside the master bedroom upstairs. Selling agents are Sherry FitzGerald Coughlan.
On one side of the 2,300 sq ft property there’s a sitting room with a cathedral beamed ceiling and a solid fuel stove set underneath a tall Wicklow granite chimney stack. At the far side of the house is an open plan kitchen dining area also with a double height ceiling.
Other ground floor rooms include a utility room, a wet room, a bathroom and two large marble floored bedrooms with en suites.
The hardwood floored master bedroom which occupies the entire first floor is ultra modern and stylish. There is a granite fronted double arched entrance at the front. It’s on half an acre.
VERDICT: A striking and stylish house which is likely to impress all viewers with its wow factor.
Sq m: 168 (1,800 sq ft) - Bedrooms: 6 - BER rating: Pending - Broadband: Yes
BACK when Convent View was built, there was indeed views of a convent, of St Marie’s of the Isle in Cork city — but now, its views are more towards developer Owen O’Callaghan’s new apartment complex, hotel and on Lancaster Quay. Convent View is sort of in the midst of the second city’s scholastic territory, with UCC a very strong presence all around, as well as PBC. But, it is really UCC that is the dominant player in this hinterland a quarter mile or so from the Grand Parade, and that’s why investors rather than owner-occupiers might cast an eye over the three-storey, six-bed property, at the corner of Mardyke Street.
Estate agent Paul O’Driscoll of Thomas J O’Driscoll & Associates guides the building at €250,000, noting that it does need some upgrading, but adding that it has retained several of its original features. Rooms include hall and two reception rooms, kitchen, and main bathroom and six bedrooms over the next two levels, plus return, with sinks in most of the bedrooms, and one has a shower fitted. The property’s sole external space is a rear yard with boiler house.
VERDICT: It needs upgrading, but has scope, and should produce a steady income stream (rents in Cork rose 6% in the past year, according to Daft this week.)
Sq m: 219 (2,350 sq ft) - Bedrooms: 4 - BER rating: Pending - Broadband: Yes
IF you it built any bigger than this size, you’d get very little money extra for it, says agent Killian Lynch of this brand new, 2,340 sq ft four-bed home a mile from Macroom in sought after Raleigh.
“It is was 3,000 sq ft, it would hardly make a penny more, people just don’t want 3,000 sq ft and larger homes right now, they’d have to furnish them, heat them and mind them. This house will take any size of family comfortably,” he argues, and safe in the knowledge that there’s another 700 sq ft or so very easily converted to more living space in the high attic - so his bold assertion is hedged for future growth.
Built to be sold on, this is a big, solid block of a house, with Ducon concrete floors, and high insulation values: the BER is only being done shortly, but will come in somewhere the B range, predicts Mr Lynch who is also a BER assessor (selling agents naturally can’t formally assess properties they are selling.)
There’s good living space, four bedrooms, Velux windows in the attic, and provision for a second staircase, and the site is 0.9 of an acre, with view back into Kerry.
VERDICT: The design won’t frighten anyone, it’s fairly traditional, but a decent home for the sum — and it could swell to 3,000 sq ft if a buyer wanted to prove the agent wrong.
Sq m: 258 (2,770 sq ft) - Bedrooms: 5 - BER rating: Pending - Broadband: Yes
A MILE or so from Tralee town at Leith is this well-finished five-bed home on a tidy acre, down from a 2010 price of €385,000.
Agents Sherry FitzGerald Stephenson Crean say the dormer home has been superbly kept, and given some design flourishes too. Attention is paid in particular to windows, in pvc sash, with a contemporary interior, and good bathrooms: two upper floor bedrooms are en suite, and the master one has a dressing room also, while there’s a Jacuzzi bath in the main bathroom. Kitchen units are in quality timber and granite topped, with a brick-faced peninsula/island, plus utility, with both recessed lighting and a chandelier over the dining table.
Rooms flow easily off a large hall and a real feature internally is the ‘split’ staircase dividing off a sort of half-return, and include a sitting room, play room, ground floor bedroom/office with adjoining bathroom. The main living/dining area is about 1,000 sq ft, the selling agents reckon.
VERDICT: Well-finished inside and out, with views towards Fenit and Ballyheighue.
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