Starter homes
98 (1,050 sq ft)
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Set about an half-hour’s commute from Cork city is this detached four-bed home, partly upgraded, on a 0.75 acre site near Terelton, Macroom.
The area is steeped in antiquity and standing stones, but this one-off buy only dates to the 1940s. It has solid fuel central heating, run off a Stanley range/stove.
It all needs some further modernising and garden work, but has great maturity and nice countryside says agent Killian Lynch, Macroom, seeking offers of €125,000.
A very manageable do-er upper.
120 (1,300 sq ft)
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There’s a lot of property, over several floors, at 5&6 The Weir, in the West Cork town of Bandon. The stone building on McSwiney Quay has been converted into two 650 sq ft two-bed apartments, over three upper floors, in a four-storey building — and it’s all for sale for €75,000, via selling agent Don Brennan of Sherry FitzGerald Brennan Busteed.
No weir view because of the set-back from the road, but this gives two car parking spaces.
1,020 (1,100 sq ft)
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Pitched at first-time buyers and investors alike (yes, they’re back on the prowl if the price and return is right) is the 1,100 sq ft three-bed home at 18 Westbourne Park, off Cork City’s Magazine Road.
The location is near University College Cork and Highfield Avenue, a minute’s sleepwalk to early or mid-morning classes on campus.
No 18 was built in the 1960s but has been well-kept and improved since, notes Jarlath Boyd of Timothy Sullivan Associates, who says it is deceptive in terms of its interior quality, with a good south-facing 20’ by 12’ kitchen/dining room behind, with oak units. There is a front sitting room with fireplace, and upstairs are three bedrooms, and a main bathroom with shower in the bath.
No 18 has off-street parking in front on a tarmac strip and behind, the back garden or yard is fully concreted, with shed, oil tank, and boiler house.
A handy-for-college option.
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