Trading Up: Broadale, Cork €345,000

Just needing the stamp of a new owner’s personality is No 3 Willsbrook, up at the front section of the popular Broadale McInerney housing development, past Douglas Golf Club on the Maryborough Hill.

It’s a two-storey four bed family home, with all the essentials in place, only needing a freshening up in decor and furniture terms to bring it back to speed.

As it stands, it has a walled back garden with lots of brick paving for easy maintenance, plus shed, small lawn, and raised perimeter beds, and there’s side access from the front where there’s off-street parking on a narrow concrete drive plus lawn.

No 3 Willsbrook is listed with agents Ann O’Mahony and Flor Gabriel of Sherry FitzGerald, who guide the c 1,400 sq ft four-bed at €345,000.

Right now, it comes with a 17’ by 14’ front sitting room with open fireplace, and behind is a linked kitchen/diner, sort of full width, and with a slight extension at the far, kitchen sink end with Velux overhead.

There’s no separate utility (but there’s a guest WC under the stairs) the laundry machines are around here too.

VERDICT:The simplest of tweaks can give a visual lift and a new input of personality to No 3, inside and out.

Size: 131 sq m (1,420sq ft)

Bathrooms: 3

Bedrooms: 4

BER: C2