Smart home ideal for first-time buyer

Enticing price for four-bedroom Carrigaline property, Tommy Barker reports.

Healthy levels of employment and investment in Cork’s harbour-based companies are helping to keep interest going in good Carrigaline homes — and a likely beneficiary of the health of the local economy may well be 6 Dun Eoin Meadows.

A smart condition four-bed home of 1,340 sq ft, in a popular development on the Ballinrea Road on the edge of Carrigaline, it has a €215,000 asking price with agent Dan Howard of Dooley and Howard: this puts it within easy grasp of solidly employed first-time buyers, at a mortgage level of around €900 a month, as well as easy reach of families trading from a townhouse or a smallish three bed semi.

Dan Howard says No 6 is in showhouse condition, with a 19’ by 13’ living room, an oak-floored kitchen/diner, utility plus guest WC, and overhead one of the four bedrooms (three doubles) is en suite, so there’s three bathrooms in all. Heating is via gas, with double glazing, an alarm, pvc double glazing, and off-street parking in front with a private back garden.

VERDICT: A walk-in job, within an easy walk of Carrigaline’s amenities, and it’s on the Cork side of Carrigaline.