Tempting price for family home

Property needs work, but Douglas location is super, Tommy Barker reports

The chance to buy a Douglas, Cork family home with four-bedrooms for a sub-€200,000 price has cropped up in convenient Shamrock Lawn.

New to market with Sherry FitzGerald is 12, Inchvale Avenue, just off the start of the hill out of the ‘west’ village heading to Grange and Frankfield and points further out. It puts it within a few minutes walk or so of St Columba’s national school, and a huge range of shops, bars, restaurants, and more, as well as having the ring road option near to hand by Tesco. No 12 needs modernising but at the price is going to repay extra investment as there’s already 1,300 sq ft of space here to work with.

Rooms include two interlinked reception rooms, front to back with double doors, and each with fireplaces, the hall’s a good size with wood floor, and the kitchen’s to the rear, with a utility and guest WC off it, to the back and behind the attached garage.

That garage gives further extension/upgrade potential, possibly over two floors subject to planning approval: there’s four first floor bedrooms, plus family bathroom. While needing doing up, it has gas central heating and double glazing, and estate agent Ann O’Mahony says there’s great space to work with for any family on the move.

VERDICT: Great spot to work on over time.