Homes in Dublin city centre, the inner suburbs and the commuter belt with an asking price of €495,000.
A three-bedroom house in the heart of the Camden Quarter, Dublin 2; a refurbished top-floor, two-bedroom apartment in a low-rise building just off Clontarf’s swishest street or a three to four-bedroom semi, a doer-upper on a corner site in Bray, Co Wicklow?
An oasis within the Camden Quarter
Address: 2 Camden Court, Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02W089
Asking price: €495,000
Agent: Felicity Fox
Blink, and you’d miss Camden Court, a throughway that links Camden Street to Harcourt Street.
It’s bang in the lively Camden Quarter, Dublin’s nighttime economy district, with a smorgasbord of bars and nightclubs, literally on the doorstep.
Likely, you’ve scuttled past it at some ungodly hour of the night.
This little oasis is a three-bedroom house, laid out in an upside-down fashion with two of its three double bedrooms at the hall level.
One of these is ensuite, and the main bathroom is also at this level.
Climb the stairs, and you arrive at a vaulted open-plan kitchen cum living room, the spaces delineated by the staircase.
The yellow brick of the chimneybreast has been exposed, and overhead, there are exposed roof beams.
The third double bedroom is off the kitchen, which is really bright thanks to the additional rooflights overhead.
There is on-street residential parking, but you may not be able to park directly outside the property.
Extending to 68 square metres, the double-fronted property has an E1 Ber-rating.
Sea breezes, an outdoor gym and coastal walks in Dublin 3
Address: 45 Merchamp, Seafield Road East, Clontarf, Dublin 3, Clontarf, Dublin 3, D03E046
Asking price: €495,000
Agent: KM Property
This fully refurbished top-floor, two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment is in a low-rise, red brick development just off swish Vernon Avenue.
The mature estate has green spaces and trees.
It has a dual aspect living room that, with an internal kitchen whose hatch opens through to a dining nook.
The layout is excellent, although there is scope to take better advantage of the circulation space in the living room cum kitchen to make use of every square cm.
Off the living room is a west-facing balcony, where you can soak up the afternoon and evening sun.
This is an aspect both bedrooms enjoy.
As well as having a supermarket, pharmacy, cafes, restaurants and bars all up the street, the seafront is at the end of Vernon Avenue, where there is outdoor gym equipment, along with a plethora of buses serving the city centre.
The nearest Dart station is Killester, which is about a 20-minute walk away. The E1 Ber-rated property measures 66 square metres.
Suburban semi with scope to expand
Address: 9 Scott Park, Boghall Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow, A98D9F9
Asking price: €495,000
Agent: Mitchell Douglas
Situated on the edge of Bray town, at the foot of Bray Head, this three-bedroom semi, while in need of modernisation, is a solid property that has mature gardens to the front that face south, and the entrance to the property is west-facing.
The corner site property has oodles of potential, subject, of course, to deep pockets, but the layout is excellent.
The three-bedroom, two-bathroom house, which has a D1 Ber-rating, extends to 92 square metres.
At the entrance level, there is a room to the front that is used as a downstairs bedroom.
There is also a separate living room and kitchen, and a full-size downstairs bathroom.
If you don’t need a fourth bedroom, it might make sense to, during the upgrades, move the kitchen to the front of the house and open up that part to create a large open-plan space that gets sun all day and move the sitting room to where the kitchen currently is.
Turning the bathroom into a shower cum utility room would also give you that kind of engine room capacity without having to extend.
Upstairs, there are two double bedrooms and a single, as well as the family bathroom.
