‘A’ class apart in Rochestown
Almost 20 years after breaking ground at Cork’s Mount Oval, on Clarke’s Hill in Rochestown, the all-encompassing 850-unit Mount Oval village is coming to its last phase of building, and with developers O’Flynn Construction still at the helm.
Launching are the first of 14 new builds - detacheds of 1,700 sq ft - in a section called Dunkerrin near Foxwood and by the relatively new (and already full) Rochestown National School.
Five four-bed units launch this week with two reserved (No 1 will be a showhouse for the 14), say agents Paul Hannon and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who note “this is one of the last opportunities to acquire a new home in this most successful development, in a private cul de sac in a mature location within Mount Oval.”
Prices for the four-beds start from €495,000: construction has also just commenced and delivery of the first completed units to family buyers is expected by Spring 2017. As the last section within the large scheme, they’ll be the first to have air-to-water heat pumps, wood burning stoves and ‘A’ BER levels.
The overall development is on 110 acres by Garryduff in Rochestown which O’Flynn Construction bought for the equivalent of €14 million in the mid-to-late 1990s, and it was due to be completed by 2008, but the last sections were stalled by the housing slump.
Design at Dunkerrin again is by architects Roderick Hogan Associates who did the masterplan for the overall development, which includes a range of house sizes and types, apartments, duplexes, bar, restaurant, shop, creche and other services (see our 2007-dated aerial shot above.)
At market peak, resales and new launches of the very largest homes here comfortably topped €1m: the past two years has seen an increasing number of resales in sections like Clarkes Wood, Dewberry, Kilbrody and Rowan Hill which have topped the €500k mark, and Dunkerrin now enters at the €495,000 level.
These two-storey homes are smaller than several of the other Mount Oval three-storey builds dating to the early 200s, and so clearly carry a price premium for brand-new, A-rated purchases.
: ‘A’ for perseverence.
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