Trading Up
Trading up from a smaller home, trading down, or moving to Cork for work — the pristine three-bed home at 73 Yewlands up in the Maryborough Woods scheme is going to catch the eye of buyers from all those categories.
Built in the last decade in the popular O’Brien and O’Flynn scheme on the hilly edge of Douglas, No 73 is a mid-terraced home with good-sized rooms overall, especially at ground level, while the en suite master bedroom’s decent as well, at 16’ by 10.’ TLC has been the order of the day here, quite clearly, as despite being home to a young family, it’s pretty spotless, with a back garden that looks trim despite the rigours of a just-ending winter.
Auctioneer Jeremy Murphy seeks offers around €225,000 for the 1,135 sq ft home: three years ago Yewlands houses were selling in the mid-€300,000s, so there’s real extra value now for 2013 buyers, who won’t have to spend another penny on it.
Double doors lead from the hall to a front reception room 16’ by 14’ with bay window and open fireplace, and behind is an open-plan kitchen/dining room, with compact living space off to the rear, with French doors to the garden, with patio, lawn, shed, and greenhouse. The kitchen, with warm and rich-looking units, is 10’ by 9’, next to the 18’ by 8’ dining/living stretch of space, and there’s also a storage area and guest WC off the hall.
VERDICT: A tended home.
There’s both a private home and a business base to be had at this handy West Cork setting, near Bandon, Innishannon and the coast, in good farming land, half an hour from Cork city.
Estate agent Tom Brady has the sale of a 2,700 sq ft five-bed family home, on 3.3 acres, with an extensive yard which is home to a 2,400 sq ft modern steel shed, with three phase power — all set up for a manufacturing or engineering business.
The existing family users are relocating, keen to sell now and it’s being offered by tender by Mar 22, says Mr Brady, who describes it as a “ready to go” opportunity, and ideal for those involved in the farm machinery business.
There’s a paddock on an acre and a half, a vegetable garden, 600 sq ft car garage and 60’ by 40’ warehouse/workspace.
The detached quality house, well-separated by an expanse of yard, was built about 14 years ago and has two reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, office/study, and one of the five bedrooms is en suite.
Location is at Ballinadee, eight miles from Kinsale, five from Innishannon, and six from Bandon.
VERDICT: You’ll have the shortest-ever commute from home to work.
OK, it’s quite a stretch to describe Upper Panorama Terrace as Cork’s equivalent of Table Mountain, but it is a bit of a special place aloof, aloft and houses don’t come along for sale here too often.
New to market here with Michael O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald is No 7, a mid-terraced two/three storey home in good overall condition, likely to catch the eye of UCC staff, and some medics, the two active viewing and buying cohorts who love the area’s charm.
No 7 has a €220k guide, and needs some updating: the all-done up No 1 made €260,000 almost two years ago, while other recent Sherry Fitz sales nearby include a total do-er up at Winters Hill, for €65,000, and an immaculate mid-terraced at nearby Landscape Terrace, recently sale agreed at a sub-€340,000 sum.
Mr O’Donovan says Upper Panorama Terrace has some of Sunday’s Well’s best views from its setting up above Wyse’s Hill (where there’s on-street parking for locals) and practically all of No 7’s outdoor space is to the front, south facing, with patio and lawn, as well as sun-trap conservatory to the fore. Other rooms include lounge, dining room with small kitchen, three first floor bedrooms and bathroom, with top floor study and shower room.
VERDICT: Views to lift the spirits.
Built big, this Dunmore Road area property in Waterford has a lot of high-end features to help underpin its €415,000 asking price with agents REA O’Shea O’Toole. Other houses here have sold from €300,000 to a cracker at €455,000 in the past three years, according to the Residential Property Price Register.
The four-bed detached home at 37 Grange Cove was built about 13 years ago, but still has a modern spec, with good appliances, granite worktops, porcelain tiled floor and solid oak joinery.
It has two interconnected reception rooms, one in front is carpeted, the one behind has oak flooring and this continues on into a conservatory; there’s a separate dining room with porcelain tiled floor, large kitchen/breakfast room, a study, utility and guest WC — a lot fitted in, thanks to its double front layout and central hall. Overhead are four bedrooms of which two are en suite, and the main family bathroom has both a Jacuzzi bath and separate power shower.
Outside, there’s off-street parking on a cobble drive, and the modest-size back garden with shed is west-facing in the cul-de sac Grove, and No 37 faces a green.
VERDICT: All the space most families could wish for, just off the Dunmore Road.
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