Starter home: Grange, Douglas €245,000

Grange, Douglas €245,000

Sq m 92 (993 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms: 2

BER: D2

The description ‘owner-occupied’ is often one applied to homes to

indicate either a higher standard of finish, or a higher standard of care. It’s a fairly crude shorthand,and sometimes mis-placed.

The owner of 61 Ashford Court in the outer Douglas suburb of Grange is house-proud, but she has had it rented out and is now selling, and what she’s offering to home hunters is a good few steps up above the bland rental norm.

New to market this month with agent Niamh Moloney of Sherry Fitzgerald, it’s a semi-detached dormer with Dutch-hipped roof that - thanks to its side main entrance - looks for all the world like a detached house from the road.

No 4 has a price tag of €245,000 and is just shy of 1,000 sq ft, all looking nicely crisp and modern without going over the top. And, outside there’s off-street parking while behind is a well-kept, neat garden with shed and block boundary walls.

Rooms inside include a kitchen/breakfast room with cream units, black and white tiles, and a tiled floor, with an ornate black cast iron fireplace in the adjoining family/dining reception, there’s a timber-floored separate living room with second contrasting white fireplace with cast iron insert, while there’s also gas central heating.

And, the ground floor also fits in one bedroom and a nearby bathroom. Upstairs are two more bedrooms, one with en suite shower room and Sliderobes, though the occupant of the second bedroom (with good storage also) may have to make do with trotting downstairs for ablutions.

VERDICT: Ready for owner-occupation.