House of the Week: €795k Ballintemple four-bed semi-d

Number 62 Aylesbury has arrived on the market soon after sales of Numbers 61 and 63

62 Aylesbury, Ballintemple. Pictures: H-Pix

Ballintemple, Cork city
€795,000
Size	140 sq m (1,500 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	A2

If you live in homes like Nos 59, 60, or 64, 65 in Aylesbury in Cork city’s Ballintemple, you could be forgiven for feeling jittery about your future there.

Number 61 Aylesbury is recently sold. No 63 Aylesbury is now sale agreed and contracted and, hot on its heels just a month later comes the very broadly similar No 62….the third listing here in a row for estate agent Lawrence Sweeney of Savills.

Just where does he stop? Four, five, six in a row? Buy the street one by one for a hotel, Monopoly board style?

“I didn’t go after them, they came to me,” Mr Sweeney professes when challenged about the steady succession of strong sales in this crisp-looking 74-unit scheme.

The Price Register shows No 61 surfacing in January of this year at €860,000, well in advance of its October 2025 listing with a €695,000 AMV.

It wasn’t a fluke, as when No 63 came to market earlier this year with a €795,000 AMV, it went even stronger — higher than No 61’s €860,000, but under €900k, it’s understood (the exact figure will make the Register soon.)

Many of the bidders on No 61 turned up to have a look and bid on No 63, and it sold well and swiftly as it was slightly larger than Nos 61 and 62

Just listed No 62 is the ‘standard’ 140 sq m/1,500 sq ft size, and it’s launched at €795,000: going on the two previous sales, expect a price somewhere in the €800ks once any ‘hat trick’ deal is nailed down?

The string of sales will surely please the original buyers at Aylesbury, with the every-useful Price Register showing these four-bed semis selling in 2021 for an even €500,000, while the slightly larger No 63 shows in 2020 at €536,200….indicating all three resales could have had an uplift of over €300k since bought new.

The development is right next door to Cork Constitution RFC, built on a former Eircom depot site by Centurion Homes, to a design by Kinsale-based architect Richard Rainey and is a mix of semi-detached and detached houses plus apartments. Day one, the handful of detacheds were bought in the mid-€700ks, with €955,000 paid for No 4 in 2023.

Lest anyone thinks the sales of 61, 62 and 63 Aylesbury indicate something amiss in the setting (stray rugby balls crashing in from Cork Con?) worry not.

No 61 had been bought day one as a sort of ‘stop gap’ by a couple of medics moving to Cork and buying for security and peace of mind, while they kept an eye out for something bigger.

No 63 had been bought new by downsizers, who later got another house option via a family route. Today, No 62’s vendors are selling and ‘upsizing’ to another Cork suburb, to be closer to the man’s family roots. The couple had met in Dublin in 2015, married in 2020 and moved to Cork and more precisely Aylesbury in 2021.

“The opportunity of a lifetime came up to move to the other side of the city closer to friends and family, so we are reluctantly moving, after lots of thought,” say No 62’s owners, now vendors.

“We loved the location, so close to town, Douglas and Blackrock. Everything we needed was on our doorstep. We loved the bright sunny and always-warm house,” they add.

“The community spirit in Aylesbury is exceptional and we will miss the many new friends both us and the kids have made. We’ll miss the proximity to the Greenway, the Marina Park, the Marina market, the long list of coffee shops…. and we loved Beaumont park across the road for walking our dog.”

To that local amenity list could be added an array of schools, sports pitches, from Avondale FC in Beaumont park by nationals schools, to Cork Con RFC, or for those with high GAA ambitions there’s Páirc Uí Rinn, whilst SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a downhill stroll on the other side of Ballintemple.

Clearly very familiar with it all, Savills’ Lawrence Sweeney says the A2 energy rating in an as-new home is another bonus on top of location, with a small green to the front and privacy to the largely paved back, where an olive tree keeping company with hydrangea and ferns might yield a garnish for martinis in decades to come.

Features at No 62 include Delforno tiling and floors, a kitchen by Cullenview with quartz tops, flame-effect electric fire in the bright front reception room, high-speed broadband, and EV car charge point.

VERDICT: Within an hour of going ‘live’ on Savills’ website this week requests for viewings stated to flood in. Some had looked at Nos 61 or 63 previously “as well as some who weren’t in a position to buy last time and are now,” according to Mr Sweeney, adding now of this third, rapid market arrival “you know what you are getting here, everyone loves Aylesbury".