Trading up: Blackrock, Cork €275,000

THERE’S been quite a spread of prices paid in the last few years for homes in Cork’s Marian Park, where houses range around a green and a grotto or Marian shrine, grouped like beads on a necklace or a Rosary.

Size: 116sq m 1,250 sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 3 

Bedrooms: 3 

BER: D2

Maybe it has depended on condition, or inter-family sales, or positioning, but the prices paid for these terraced houses off Church Road Blackrock have ranged from €95k to €297,500, with most transactions in the mid €200,000 range.

Now, No 45 Marian Park is up for sale, extended already and with 1,250 sq ft as a result, according to agents Cohalan Downing, who seek offers at the €275,000 price guide.

The describe it as a charming and updated two-storey, three-bedroom (one en suite) mid-terraced family home, needing little but a personal stamp on change of ownership.

It has two reception rooms, with fireplaces, there’s a Shaker-style kitchen with access to the wedge-shaped garden and shed, has a walled front garden and path to its entrance porch and it’s near schools, services and suburbs like Blackrock, Beaumont, and Mahon with its mix of shops and consolidate employment base, and viewing interest demand is expected to be keen.

VERDICT: A decades-old vogue location in the ‘burbs.