Trading up: Kinsale, Cork €465,000

Sq m: 214 (2,300 sq ft)

Aging well are three-dozen or so large detached homes in Kinsale’s Causeway development, done about 10 years ago at Compass Quay by developers Flemings.

No 7 The Causeway, a fine sized family home with four-bedrooms (and with two of those rooms en suite) has 2,300 sq ft and is priced at €465,000 by Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald in Cork city, equating to around €200 psf for this well-finished home, built using Fleming’s patented steel-frame technology. Previous sales include one in 2013 for €410,000 and another in 2010 for €475,00, and back close to 2003 sale price levels.

There’s a very good floor plan, ideal for family living, with plenty of space. It starts with a linked kitchen/dining room to the back with maple units, plus utility. This links to a side family room, and that in turn goes to a front study/ studio with French doors having front garden access, and alongside that and slightly protruding is a front main reception, 19’ by 13’ with open fireplace.

There’s a large hall, oak floored, as is much of the rest of the ground level, with tiled guest loo off.

Overhead are four beds, one with en suite and walk-in robes, another is also en suite, there’s a good main bathroom, and there’s pull-down stairs to a floored and plastered attic level.

VERDICT: Family-friendly Kinsale home.