Starter home: Deerpark, Cork City €225,000

Sq m 109 (1,175 sq ft)

THE owners of Bramley, a three-bed terraced home in Cork’s super-convenient Deerpark, have been here for years and did some work or improvement almost every year, according to its selling agent.

Auctioneer Jeremy Murphy prices Bramley, aka 175 Deerpark off Friars Rd, at €225,000, and says it’s a real credit to its occupants, who he adds made a great job of a very well-finished attic extension. It doesn’t qualify for description of a fourth bedroom but is a multi-use space, with lots of power points, phone and TV points, Velux windows, and black-out blinds, as well as access to good attic storage. There are smoke alarms on each level, and a burglar alarm.

The next floor down has three bedrooms. One has sliding wardrobes, another fitted units in alder, and the third has a built-in single bed, slightly raised with three steps, plus a well-finished family bathroom.

On the ground level, there’s a living room with gas fire. Both the hall and living room have birch floors, and behind is a family room, plus a slender kitchen/diner with attractive plain timber units; both rooms overlook the back garden, which doesn’t have external access given its terrace setting.

While the garden isn’t very large, it houses a neat central lawn, raised beds, and a small steel shed. Deerpark, with a large green to the front of the 1990s development built on old farm/religious order lands, can be reached off Friars Rd or Pouladuf Rd, within a walk of the city centre and UCC, as well as being near the Lough, schools and services.

VERDICT: Spotless, all up to speed, a walk-in job and a walk-up job over three floors, super-handy for settled, old suburban city living.