Trading Up: Moneygourney, Cork €295,000

The asking price of 93 Fort Hill, in Cork’s Moneygourney, seems to be pretty much bang on the money.

Over the past couple of years, sales here have gone from a low of €115,000 to the early €300,000s, and most have hovered in the mid to high €200,000s, re-gaining in value steadily over the past four years of price stabilisation and recovery.

In 2015, No 99 shows up as selling for €285,000,No 94 made €295,000, and that’s the price now sought for No 93 next door, by estate agents Casey & Kingston.

Fort Hill, with over 100 modern builds at Moneygourney near Garryduff in Rochestown/off Maryborough Hill, dates to the early 2000s, and was developed by West Cork-based Murnane and O’Shea, and is popular, and resales are now quite swift.

No 93’s quite typical of the flat-dormer topped three-bed semi-d model here, with front sitting room, rear kitchen/diner, back hall/utility and guest WC all at ground level.

Up above, there are three bedrooms with one en suite, and a main family washroom.

It’s modern, and tidy, and needs little other than to move in, say the agents, adding that it’s close to a vast range of services locally and in Douglas village, and has easy access to the ring road too.

VERDICT: All the essentials in place, for just under €300k.