Large family homes beside top golf course

Straffan: from €865,000 Four-bedroom detached houses on grounds which back onto the prestigious K Club go on sale today in Straffan, Co Kildare.

This is the final phase at The Beeches, a small development of 38 good-sized family homes.

Prices start at €865,000 for the last four 186sq m (2,000sq ft) four-beds, which have a good quality finish.

Joint agents Coonan Real Estate Alliance and Nolan & Brophy are taking bookings at the showhouses which are open for viewing this Saturday and Sunday.

The Beeches's site is laid out as one landscaped avenue, with a curve at one end.

Four-bedroom houses have render and redbrick exteriors and fully landscaped front gardens.

Developer Castlekeel Ltd has added a number of luxury touches at The Beeches that could swing a sale.

Bathroom fittings are Villeroy and Boch and a central vacuuming system is part of the package.

Portland stone fireplaces with a classic French look are fitted for a gas fire.

There is a generous €20,000 allowance for kitchens, although most buyers so far have opted for the French country-look showhouse model, which has granite worktops and an island breakfast bar.

Buyers have a choice of kitchen and wardrobe styles. Decked patios, pebble driveways, granite sills, front railings and timber windows are other standard features at this scheme. The houses for sale this weekend are almost finished and the entire development is expected to be finished by September, when the Ryder Cup begins at the K Club.