Two turn-key condition three-bedroom terraced homes but would you go for Marino or Baldoyle.
One is an A3-rated house with an enormous west-facing garden, just two blocks from the sea in Baldoyle.
It is asking €665,000.
The other a tastefully decorated design in Marino, the garden city suburb.
It is seeking €645,000.
Both offers family buyers a lot of space.
Address: 15 College Street, Baldoyle, Dublin 13, D13 X5F3
Asking price: €665,000
Agent: Property Team Lappin Estates
An A3-rated house with an enormous west-facing garden, and just two blocks from the sea, almost sounds too good to be true.
It includes laundry and utility rooms, the engine rooms that ensure the main spaces remain decluttered and all the technical back-end modern housing demands.
All in a single-storey cottage in the seaside part of Baldoyle.
It has underfloor heating, a 14-panel solar array with a hot water diverter, a filtration system that also softens the water and a mechanical ventilation system to move airflow through the property, no matter the weather outside.
Set well back from the road, the bedrooms are to the front of the property.
There is also a home office squeezed into its 108 square metre floor plan.
To the back of the property is a large open plan living room cum kitchen with a westerly aspect.
Light pours into the dual aspect room, through a clerestory window and through its triple-glazed sliding doors that open out to a stepped terrace.
The garden below is enormous and gets afternoon sun.
The entire outdoor space extends to almost 52 square metres in length – longer than an Olympic swimming pool.
At the foot of this vast lawn is a garden house that is wired for electricity, which could be upgraded to use as a home office or gym or hobby room.
In a walk-in condition, the house is asking €665,000 through agents Property Team Lappin Estates.
Address: 144 Brian Road, Marino, Dublin 3, County Dublin, D03 Y4X7
Asking price: €645,000
Agent: KM Property
Leafy Marino offers a lot. Schools within walking distance, the wide-open green of Fairview Park, and an established locale.
It was here, in response to an earlier housing crisis, that the Irish government developed the area into a planned, so-called ‘garden city’ built by Dublin Corporation.
There’s also the sea at Clontarf and proximity to the airport.
Number 144 Brian Road in what was called a garden estate, one of the first planned housing developments in the republic.
The three-bedroom, one-bathroom terraced house on one of Marino’s best roads.
The neighbourhood is mature and is one of Dublin’s first planned areas with many of its streets radiating out from greens, creating communal spaces for kids to play with the kids on a road, feel a sense of freedom, yet can still be surveyed.
The D2 Ber-rated house has been extended to give it 91 square metres of space and has interconnecting reception rooms that run front to back and are floored in a blonde herringbone-patterned laminate.
The kitchen is to the rear and is accessed via a boot room area.
It opens out to the garden, which has a southerly aspect.
There is off-street parking for one car.
KM property is seeking €645,000 for the house.
