Get ready for Ryder with luxury K Club home

Co Kildare: from€980,000 Prices at the K Club's Ladycastle development range from €980,000 for apartments to €3m for detached houses. They come furnished and fitted right down to cups and saucers - and with two free life memberships in the exclusive golf club. Rose Doyle reports

A limited number of houses and apartments on the Ladycastle development at the K Club go on the market today with prices up to €3 million.

It's expected that many are likely to be bought by business people who are planning to entertain their guests at the Ryder Cup in 2006.

Exclusive and residential, the X apartments, 36 HOUSES AND 47 DETACHED HOMES which will make up the entire development are on an eight-acre site within the restored 550-acre Georgian estate on the banks of the Liffey in Co Kildare. A small number are being released at this stage.

Built by Menolly Homes, all are being sold fully furnished and fitted - even to the detail of having cups, saucers and lampshades - by leading designers.

Architects Brian O'Halloran & Associates have designed four different styles of house, with either three or four bedrooms in each, as well as four apartment styles. Houses have landscaped rear gardens and off-street parking. The apartments all come with parking and has its own front door and parking.

House sizes range from 152 sq m (1,645 sq ft) to 353q m (3,800 sq ft), with the smallest apartment 112 sq m (1,215 sq ft) and the largest 184 sq m (1,980 sq ft). Selling agent French Estates is quoting prices of €980,000, for the two-bed apartments, to €3 million for the 353 sq m (3,800 sq ft) detached houses.

With its eight-acre site running alongside the Smurfit Course, Ladycastle residents will be a short walk from K Club's golf courses, country club, restaurant, hotels and leisure facilities.

Buyers will also find themselves with two full K Club memberships IN PERPETUITY and will share the tree-lined entrance drive with the new, Smurfit Course clubhouse.

Houses and apartments are fitted with kitchens by John Daly, Design House, House Works and Richwood and with appliances by brands like Gaggenau. Particularly smart are fitted wardrobes supplied by Cawleys.

The interior designers who furnished and fitted, Peter Johnson, Garuda, Cotton Box and Spirit & Style, can advise buyers on ways to personalise their homes.

An earlier development on the K Club demesne, The Ryder Cup Village, sold out quickly. Bounded by 17th Century walled gardens, it has a mix of 58 two and three-bedroom apartments in seven different styles.

Viewing of Ladycastle apartments and houses is by appointment.