Trading Up
Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
A sub-€300,000 asking price attaches to the three-bed dormer home at Woodgrrove, close to Carrigaline town centre at Kilmoney.
For sale with agent Michael Pigott of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan Daly, the 1,500 sq ft, brick-facaded dormer home has been recently upgraded internally while its back gardens have been heavily planted around the edges for colour and birdlife.
They’re south-facing at the back, as a bonus, whilst the front drive is largely brick paved for easy of maintenance and car parking. There’s also a practical steel shed, on a concrete base for gardening implement, bikes, etc.
Mr Pigott says the Woodgrove home is in superb decorative order: it has a nice tiled hall with hardwood stairs, a knotty pine kitchen with tiled floor and ceramic Belfast sink, dining area off it, as well as a main living room with oak floor and a TV room with walnut floor.
One of its three bedrooms is at ground floor level, by a bathroom with a bath, and the two overhead bedrooms are served by a shower room.
Heating is via gas, and the decor level makes it a walk-in trading up proposition.
VERDICT: Great nick, but the fact there’s only three bedrooms right now might rule it out for larger families.
Sq m: 186 (2,000 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
Carrying an unusual name, Cloud Lea is a modern, two-storey home newly up for sale in rural mid-west Cork’s Newcestown.
A well-finished 2,000 sq ft family home, with four bedrooms, it has rural views that go on for miles from its site, with some wrap-around decking for outdoor seating and al fresco dining.
Painted an assertive terracotta shade on its gabled front facade, Cloud Lea has an asking price of €295,000 with agents Sherry FitzGerald Brennan Busteed in nearby Bandon, who note it’s only a few minutes walk from services in Newcestown itself.
Apart even from the accommodating size, it’s got a good spec for the price level, with a sun room to the side, granite tops on the kitchen units, there’s a range cooker in the 23’ by 13’ kitchen/diner, a Jacuzzi in the main bathroom, and one of the first floor’s three bedrooms is en suite.
Bed four, or optional office/family den, is at ground floor level, next to a bathroom. The hall, and landing, are larger than standard adding to the feel of airiness inside, while outside, the airiness continues with those rolling views going on for miles.
VERDICT: Freedom of country living, 15 minutes from Bandon.
Sq m: 217 (2,345 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
There’s quite a lifestyle option, and a smidgin of an income, to be had with this Tulla, Co Clare home and land near the Limerick-Clare motorway. Plus, there’s the quiet satisfaction that you’re doing something good for the environment, by creating your very own carbon offsets via forestry.
It comes on 40 acres of land, with a ¾ acre amenity pond with a tiny island that looks like it needs a coconut palm tree instead of a stand of silver birches.
Then, there’s 30 acres of commercial mixed forestry, planted 12 years ago and with eight more years of €5,600 pa premium income, plus six acres of older forestry, and four acres of gardens and plant nursery, along with seven irrigated polytunnels for the truly green-fingered.
Selling agents are de Courcy auctioneers in Limerick, guiding €575,000, and once bought self-sufficiency seems quite assured.
And, that’s before ever seeing the restored two-storey 2,300 sq ft four-bed house, with two solid fuel stoves and gas central heating. The L-shaped house, fronted by lush lawns, is a pleasant mix of render, and exposed stone with stone reveals around the windows.
There’s also some old stone outbuildings with galvanised roofs.
VERDICT: Could be a private idyll.
Sq m: 100 (1,100 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
With one similar vintage house sold in jig-time in popular and mature Woodlawn off Cork’s Model Farm Road, the omens are looking good for 7 Woodlawn.
The quite original three-bed semi-d comes to market after recent drains and underpinning work has been done to it, says agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing, adding “it’s located on one of Cork’s premier roads.” He guides it at €275,000.
With around two dozen homes in all, Woodlawn near Dennehy’s Cross was built around 1960 and this is only the seventh or eighth house to be sold in the park in over 50 years, Mr Olden adds.
No 7 comes along shortly after Sherry FitzGerald sold a very similar Woodland semi, after heavy viewings and bids to over €300k.
No 7 needs further work now that the essential foundations work has been sorted out, so buyers are likely to be in the trading-up category rather than first-time buyers.
There’s off-street parking in front, the house faces a green, and the back garden is east facing.
VERDICT: A very strong, sellable location, near schools colleges and hospitals. Coming on the back of a recent neighbouring Woodlawn sale, there are underbidders on the prowl.
Sq m: 208 (2,250 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
Withdrawn from the market in 2009, when it was in the mid-600,000s, this time round no 37 Fernwalk has a guide of €450,000 and already has an offer over €400,000. Close, but no cigar.
Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald is looking for further offers for the family-friendly four bed.
And it combines those two greats of the property market, location and orientation. Facing full south and with a professionally designed back garden that’s fully mature, this house has a large site in a quiet, rather exclusive neighbourhood at Greenfields.
Most of the neighbours, like 37, were self-build projects at a time when sites were generous and were placed to take advantage of the Ballincollig bypass which is just down the road.
The house comes with a double length living room, a large kitchen diner with sunroom and family room and the kitchen is hand built by Coachhouse Kitchens, in birch. Overhead, there’s a long, U-shaped landing with a really big master suite, a second en suite bedroom and two other rooms with main bathroom.
Verdict: Lots of space, lots of room outside and plenty of extras make for a good family buy. Worth a viewing.
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