Trading Up: South Douglas Road, €225,000

APARTMENT building and living is going to be an increasing feature in the Irish residential market, a CIF builders’ conference was told this week, with cost of construction viability only just returning to the apartment market as prices and rents continue to rise, and future new blocks will generally be sold as multiples of units, than singly, to individual buyers, it was suggested.

But, in the meanwhile, very much aimed at a one-off buyer, either trading-down owner-occupier or investor, is the ground floor apartment no 1, in the superbly-located Kingsbridge scheme of 34 units, off the city end of Cork’s South Douglas Road.

Easily accessed off the south city link, and the city centre’s a short walk away too, No 1 is for sale with basement parking, in a gated enclave built in 2003 and has been popular with buyers and renters since, with some larger ones getting €1,300 a month.