Starter homes

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €195,000

Sq m: 82 (900 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 2

BER rating: Pending

Broadband: Yes

NEEDING work, but detached and within a walk of Ballincollig’s town centre in Cork, is this Powdermills cottage.

Named (like the picturesque weir on the Lee river by the public park’s walkways) after the old gunpowder mills’ long association with the town, the compact cottage with detached garage is on a 0.2 acre site. And, while it has a current extension in place, it is the sort of place that will gain by further building-on and doing up.

Estate agent Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald guides it at €195,000.

VERDICT: A mix of rural appeal and convenience.

Farranree, Cork €100,000

Sq m: 70 (750 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3

BER rating: Pending

Broadband: Yes

A FEW bob to be spent on it, but No 153 Kilnap Place is a good Cork city house, in an area with a steady demand.

Paul Young of Christy Ryan and Associates is selling the mid-terrace three-bed and is open to offers around the guide price.

Rooms include a living room, built-in kitchen, back hall with bathroom and three bedrooms overhead.

The garden includes a shed and the front garden could provide off street parking.

Paul Young is also selling No 32 Fr Matthew Road, Turner’s Cross, which appeared incorrectly as 37 Fr Matthew Road on these pages.

VERDICT: This Kilnap Place house won’t need too much investment to become a good starter home.

BALLINGURTEEN, CORK €185,000

Sq m: 110 (1,260 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3/4

BER rating: C1

Broadband: Yes

PRETTY much everything beyond the retained front wall of this west Cork village home is brand new, such is the scale of its renovations.

With a stream at its back garden boundary, the 1,250 sq ft home in pretty Ballingurteen village now has a €185,000 asking price with Micheal Duggan of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill in Clonakilty.

It’s got all the charm and character (vaulted wood ceilings, wood burning stove, immaculate gardens, etc) of a rural cottage, in a village setting.

VERDICT: Perfect for a buyer trading in from the countryside, or someone who loves west Cork, without the isolation.