Clean sweep for Santa at €395k No 13 The Close

AT this time of year, there’s a lot to be said for an open fireplace in a family home – Santa knows his way around them, having been up and down stacks and stacks.

He has his access tricks too in places with electric heaters, and air to water units — worry not —but he doesn’t divulge exactly how he gets into every child’s home that doesn’t have a tried and tested chimney, for obvious domestic security reasons.

An open fire is a selling point, so, for 3 The Close, a neat as a pin three-bed, end of terraced outer Douglas home where the resident family are on the move early in 2025, looking to upsize from their c900 sq ft base, says agent Megan Forde of Sherry FitzGerald who guides at €395,000.

She says No 3 “is in fantastic condition, really well kept,” which means the young children here must have been very good all year: Santa please note.

Because the decorations are up, and there’s so much onright now, Ms Forde saidher vendors will wait until just after the holidays before she can start viewings, but it’s put up for sale this side of the Big Day so that hopefuls for a new home in 2025 can add it to their list.

The selling agent expects a cross-section, from traders down to first time buyers and even investors seeing as
it wasn’t rented before and so
is free of rent caps, if not Santa hats, and paper cracker hats.

VERDICT: Open and shut case, and No 3 even gets a B3 BER despite (or, for the month that’s in it, because of?) a traditional open fire.