Starter Homes
Bedrooms: 2
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
On the upper end of the starter level, this bijou property at Montenotte, Cork, offers the joy of a country cottage, with a high, city location.
No 6 Cherry Gardens is a two-bed semi and, says Kevin O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan Estates Ltd, is in superb condition, and includes good interior styling. It has a sitting room with slate fireplace, a kitchen/breakfast room and guest bathroom. Upstairs are two double bedrooms and a main bathroom.
Verdict:: Lock up and go, ideal for singletons.
Sq m: 124 (1,340 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
A clean interior and well-kept gardens come with the four-bed bungalow home at Gurteen, Little Island east of Cork city.
Located near Castleview, it’s good to go, for first-time buyers or traders-down, says Michael O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald seeking €229,000.
VERDICT: Great site and south-west aspected back garden is good.
Sq m: 97 (1,050 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: C3
Broadband: Yes
A mid-terraced, modern townhouse at 7 Dunvale Lawn in Cork’s Frankfield has good, large ground floor rooms for its house-type, as well as three bedrooms with one en suite, making for three bathrooms in all.
On offer with Jeremy Murphy Associates for €210,000, the super-managable home close to Douglas and the ring road also has front drive/garden and back garden.
VERDICT: A well-located neat package



