Quality home in excellent condition

The drop in price for this quality may suit those who have waited. Tommy Barker reports

A BIG house from top to bottom — that’s price-reduced 7 Abbottswood, a six-bed family home built in the last decade in Cork’s Rochestown.

Estate agent Jeremy Murphy now guides this three-storey brick-faced home at €525,000, showing a big reduction from the boom period when these big homes were in the €1 million-plus price league, and showing the sort of 50% drop from peak that this week’s depressing Myhome, Daft and Sherry FitzGerald surveys indicated.

Now, for traders up who can get their hands on finance, or who’ve sat and waited for the drops to date, the half a million euro mark could see them make the leap to the sort of comfortable house they’d never have to leave, until maybe trading-down time wheels around in a decade or two, when the property world might be a better place.

No 7’s a quality home, with Kahrs wood flooring through much of its ground level, in rooms like the hall, front formal sitting room, with a feature fireplace, in the dining room, and the play room, while the kitchen/breakfast room floor is tiled, with its pale maple units in a U-shape. There’s also a tiled utility and guest WC.

The first floor houses four bedrooms, most with varnished wood floors, the master bedroom is en suite, and the main family bathroom has an oval-shaped bath up on legs. Go up another floor, and the top level is home to two bedrooms plus a shower room, so making for four bathrooms in all over its three levels.

Overall condition is excellent, with some nice decor touches, notes Mr Murphy.

VERDICT: There’s a touch of North American family homes to the exterior design, even if there isn’t quite the “great open spaces” followed through in the inside. Lots of rooms, and lots of space, though.

Location:

Rochestown, Cork

Price:

€525,000

Size:

275 sq m (3,000 sq ft)

Bedrooms:

6

BER rating:

Pending

Broadband:

Yes

Best feature:

Size and location