Trading Up: Bishopstown, Cork €245,000

The chance to get into the Bishopstown area of Cork city in a three-bed semi-d comes along at 5 Oakgrove, in a section of Uam Var, one of the later builds here and dating to the early 1980s.

Now coming up on 35 years of age, this two-story semi-d needs updating, but the price guide of €245,000 via agent iona Waldron of Jeremy Murphy Associates seems to reflect this.

It has just under 900 sq ft of living space, with three-beds and a utility off the hall, and it still gets quite a decent C2 BER, good for its age, but it’s likely its next owners will spend a bit on adding comforts, and updating the decor.

They may even go further, and extend, and there’s an immediate option to extend into the attached garage, to go up over it, or to go out the back — where the back garden slopes down away from the house and this could allow for a two-tier back add on, or even sunken lounge/sun room.

It’s two-storey, on a corner site by a large public green and is the last of five houses in a row on a corner site.

Close by is a neighbourhood cluster of shops serving the many bungalows in Uam Var, off the Curraheen Road near the CIT.

VERDICT: Good to grow.

Size: 81sq m (880sq ft)

Bathrooms: 1

Bedrooms: 3

BER: C2