Trading up: SCR Limerick €265,000

Sq m: 147 (1,600 sq ft)

There’s a couple of pairs of semi-ds in Limerick city’s Castlewell estate which are different to the more usual run of two storey homes here: they are more dormer in style, lower slung, and broad — and a good example is No 41.

For sale with agent Gillian Dunne of DNG Cusack Dunne, this is a high-spec semi, well-sized at 1,600 sq ft , and that allows for two of its four bedrooms to have en suite bathrooms.

She says it’s one of the better examples of modern family homes to come to Limerick’s city market in a while, in a cul de sac off the South Circular Road near the old Greenpark racecourse, a very popular address, adds Ms Dunne.

No 41’s a walk-in job, decorated in pale creams and whites, with bright cream coloured kitchen with island with utility, guest WC, three reception rooms, and most of the ground level is floored in large porcelain tiles.

Most rooms have cream timber venetian blinds, in keeping with the light and airy decor theme.

There’s off-street parking and a neatly-kept west-facing back garden, with perimeter planting ready to take off in a rail sleeper fringed bed plus garden shed.

VERDICT: Location, size and luxury look — what’s not to like in this Limerick cream of the cream home?