A lot of house in this Tivoli Cork enclave as auction sale beckons

THERE’S a whopping amount of house at No 2, Bellevue Villas — and a price reduction as it goes up for auction means many would-be buyers will have enough to furnish it in an appropriate manner too. 

It’s the middle house of three very large (c4,000 sq ft), over-basement period houses looking south over the River Lee and the Marina, a mile or so from the city and all three were restored to a very high conservation standard in the early 2000s.

At one stage, they had price tags on resales of €1.5m-plus, but the last sale around 2009 was for just over €700,000. This fine, rock-solid home, mid-ships in the trio No 2 had its price tag reduced in 2012 to €525,000, but that was when little of quality was selling, and it found no takers.