Starter homes: Make the move to Macroom and get more for your money

Immaculate semi-detached has many attractions, writes Tommy Barker

For the sake of less than a 30-minute commute, home-hunters west of Cork city can get an immaculate three-bed semi-d at the Árd na Gréine scheme in Macroom, for the same price as a two-bed apartment in Ballincollig.

So reasons Macroom agent, Tom Heffernan, extolling the attractions of the very well-kept family home at No 46 Árd na Gréine, built by Muscrai Construction whom, he notes, are still building new homes about 800 metres away at The Lawn, Mountmassy.