Selling this as easy as apple pie

Popular style of house which has received an ongoing interest from buyers Tommy Barker reports

If the terraced townhouses at Orchard Close were on a Monopoly board, estate agent Dennis Guerin would almost be in line to trade in a fist of them for a ‘hotel’ — he’s nearly had that many for sale.

As he now brings No 1 in this L-shaped 1970s townhouse in-fill scheme to market, he reckons it’s the fourth of this type he’s had to sell, between the near-identical Lane Brothers-built schemes in Ballincurrig (Orchard Close) and Rosebank (Elm Close) estates off the main Douglas Road.