A home by the sea in Wexford and houses in Sandymount and Ranelagh are amongst those on view this bank holiday weekend, writes ORNA MULCAHYProperty Editor
A NEWLY-BUILT detached five-bedroom house on three acres fronting the sea at Hook Head in Co Wexford is on the market at €865,000 through ERA Byrne in New Ross.
The 279sq m (3,000sq ft) house is being sold fully furnished, and the price includes a speedboat. You can fish at the end of the garden, says the agent, while inside, the high spec fittings include three bathrooms with Jacuzzi baths and steam rooms.
The property is within walking distance of Hook light house, the oldest operating light house in Europe with its visitor centre, restaurant and shop.
On view, Sunday and bank holiday Monday, 2pm-6pm
ASKING €695,000 in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, a renovated terraced house at 2 Chelmsford Avenue has 76sq m (815sq ft) of living space and a 65ft south west-facing back garden.
On sale through Sherry FitzGerald, the two-bedroom house, which dates from the 1870s, has an open-plan living/dining/kitchen area at hall level with a high vaulted ceiling and patio doors leading to the terrace that overlooks the garden.
On view Saturday, 11am-noon
IN DUBLIN 16, Felicity Fox is showing a terraced house at 7 Ballintyre Woods that is on the market at €525,000 – having had €130,000 cut from its original asking price. The three-bedroom terraced house is close to the entrance of the development, near the proposed crèche. The house has been decorated in showhouse style and has the benefit of a nicely converted attic, currently used as a fourth bedroom.
On view Saturday, noon-1pm
IN DUBLIN 4 one of the semi-detached houses at St Alban’s Park in Sandymount has come on the market through Bennetts, asking €995,000. The three-bedroom house, number 27, which has been fully modernised with a glass-box garden room to the rear, has 148sq m (1,600sq ft) of living space including reception rooms. St Alban’s Park is a quiet enclave off Sydney Parade Avenue, close to the DART, Merrion shopping centre and within walking distance of Sandymount village.
On view: Saturday, 1pm-2pm
Located at the end of a cul-de-sac off Trees Road in Mount Merrion, 56 Cherrygarth is a PV Doyle-built four-bedroom semi that is for sale at €675,000 through Colliers Jackson-Stops. It’s a spacious house with parking in front and a 60ft walled garden to the rear, but some updating is now needed.
On view Saturday, 11am-noon
Priced to compete with apartments in the area, a three-bedroom house at 17D Cherrywood in Loughlinstown is asking €380,000 through Quirke Auctioneers. Located off Loughlinstown Drive, the 72sq m (775sq ft) house has off-street parking for two cars in front, and a landscaped back garden with extensive paving.
On view: Saturday, noon-1pm
