Trading up: Skehard Road €245,000

Size: 110 sq m (1,195sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 3 

Bedrooms: 3 

BER: B3

Now well over 10 years old, the apartments, houses and duplexes at Brickfields between Blackrock and Douglas in Cork have recently been painted up on the outside in less insipid colours, the cedar cladding has also been revarnished — and, the development seems to be back on the radar of house hunters once more.

The location is ace, just off the Skehard Road, within a skate of the office and retail parks at Mahon, it’s close to schools, shops, parks and playing pitches, while Mahon Golf Course is just over the development’s boundary, overseen by the large, multi-storeyed detached Brickfields builds.

Sharing the same curved, membrane roof feature as those 2006-built eight large detached homes are a series of 38 one-, two- and three-bed apartments, launched back in 2003 when two-beds were priced at €290,000 and one-beds at €190,000.

Now, the duplex No 30 is for resale, with €245,00 sought by estate agent Jeremy Murphy, and that’s for one of the largest, a three-bed of c 1,200 sq ft.

Once up to the first floor it has a hall, living room/dining room, kitchen, guest WC, three bedrooms, plus large main bathroom.

The master bedroom has access to a sit-out, decked balcony with Douglas estuary views.

There’s also a mezzanine area.

VERDICT: well-set