Dublin 14:€ 2.5mLess stamp duty and trademark attention to detail will sell this spacious house says Kate McMorrow
Demand is strong in any market for Sorohan-built houses, constructed by a family firm whose attention to detail and workmanship has consistently raised the bar for new homes schemes.
Sorohan's reputation has been built up over the past three decades, during which they have produced Stradbrook Hall and Rockford Manor in Blackrock, Elton Court in Sandycove and, most recently, Trimbleston on Goatstown Road, Clonskeagh.
Savills HOK is quoting €€2.25 million for 63a Holywell, a newly built five-bedroom detached house of 231sq m (2,488sq ft) in this established estate off Upper Kilmacud Road in Dublin 14.
Because this is a new-build, stamp duty is calculated on site value only, so buyers will pay government tax of around€€67,500 compared with €€202,500 if this was a second-hand property.
Prospective buyers will be impressed by the high standard of craftsmanship at 63a, which has an interior fit-out to equal any on today's new homes market.
A custom-designed kitchen/breakfastroom includes granite worktops and integrated Kupperbusch appliances.
Solid oak floors are laid throughout. Mood lighting, surround sound and chrome socket and light switches are installed. Internal doors, skirtings and architraves are solid oak.
Off the entrance hall is a study/TV room and a bay-window sittingroom with flush chrome-surround gas fireplace. Double doors open from the sittingroom to a sunroom overlooking the back garden. Upstairs, designer wardrobes are fitted in all bedrooms, with a walk-in wardrobe in the largest room.
The family bathroom and two en suite shower rooms come with Villeroy & Boch sanitary ware, granite-topped vanity units, recessed mirror and a heated towel rail. Porcelain tiling is also part of the fit-out. Central heating is gas.
The good-sized south-west facing back garden is landscaped, with hardwood decking and paving and a lawn.
Planning is in place to build a double garage. Also for sale at Holywell is a new five-bedroom semi-detached house of 164sq m (1,763sq ft), priced at €1.295 million.
