Trading up: Maryborough, Cork €440,000

Having done its job in presenting and helping to sell the remaining four-bed semis for sale in Cork city’s Maryborough Ridge, the showhouse at 13, Manor Avenue, in the O’Brien and O’Flynn scheme just above Douglas is now up for sale, fully furnished.

Size: 190 sq m (2,050 sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 4 

Bedrooms: 4 

BER: B3

Guiding €440,000 via agent Lawrence Sweeney of Savills Cork, he says they launched this ‘phase one’ back in early 2015 at prices of €420,000 with a builder’s finish, and sold a half dozen, before moving on now to phase three for Nama. These, too, are selling away nicely.

Mr Sweeney says he expects a very significant interest in ready-to-move-into No 13, and target market is returning ex-pats, traders up and couples with young families keen on the locality.

It’s O’B&O’F’s second major scheme on Douglas’s Maryborough Hill, with the completed Maryborough Woods below the golf course and Maryborough Ridge up further.

This is a sizeable enough and very well finished home, for his expected broad range of buyers, with just over 2,000 sq ft and four bedrooms over the upper two levels of these three-storey, semi-detached builds.

Savills have an open viewing here Wednesday next, from 2-3pm, and also are doing open viewings Weds 3-4pm on another showhome sale at 59 Ashmount Mews, Silversprings, a three-bed end terrace of 1,000 sq ft guided at €200,000, also fully furnished.

VERDICT: A showhouse walk-in, shoe-in.