A five-bedroom house in Northern Ireland has hit the market, offering its future owner a taste of the high life courtesy of its sweeping driveway and butler’s pantry.
The home in East Belfast is on sale for offers over £1.4million and as you would expect has ample floorspace.
The ground floor spans 2,205 sq ft, while upstairs there is a further 1,838 sq ft, bringing the total internal space available to more than 4,000 sq ft.
The property has been owned by the same family for decades, and can be approached via two private gated entrances.
The expansive house is surrounded by lawns and mature trees, offering its next buyer both privacy and a sense of grandeur.
Period features are peppered throughout the property, which boasts large windows and a sense of space throughout.
Opportunity: A large house in Ballyhackamore, Belfast, is on sale for offers over £1.4million
Lynzi Templeton, a manager at John Minnis Estate Agents in Belfast, which is selling the property told This is Money: ‘Given its scale and flexibility, the property is likely to appeal to owner-occupiers seeking a prominent, spacious premises in a well-connected area, or investors and developers attracted by the size and potential.
‘Overall, it offers a rare combination of size, flexibility and location.’
The entrance hall has ornate cornicing and original tiled flooring, helping showcase the home’s heritage.
Downstairs offers a selection of spaces including a living room, a greenhouse, a morning room and the butler’s pantry – though the latter is now used as a study.
The kitchen is well-appointed, and along with the rest of the property, could provide a buyer with a good opportunity to put their own stamp on it.
There is ample space for multiple cars to park in the grounds of the property.
The grounds also come with a number of outbuildings, which could be used as storage space or a workshop.
Subject to planning permissions being in place, the spaces could be converted into habitable spaces.
The property is close to a number of schools, transport connections, parks and the amenities of Ballyhackamore and Dundonald.
Grand: The property in Northern Ireland is being sold by John Minnis Estate Agents
Period: The interior could be updated by a new buyer or kept as it is
Spacious: Internally, the property spans more than 4,000 sq ft
Options: The property has five good-sized bedrooms to choose from
Contrast: In some parts of London, buyers could still only typically get a flat for £1.4million
Prices: Land Registry data showed that Northern Ireland property rose by 7.5% last year
Features: The property boasts a sweeping driveway entrance
Official Land Registry data showed that the average Northern Ireland property rose in value by 7.5 per cent last year, against 2.4 per cent across the UK.
These rises are off a low base, however. In the final quarter of last year, the average Northern Ireland home sold for £195,936.
This was 7.8 per cent less than average prices 18 years ago in late 2007, before the country’s property market was hit badly by the financial crisis.
While other UK markets have seen periods of explosive property price inflation over the past decade and a half, Northern Ireland ’s growth has been more measured.
Bernadette Page, regional partner at Garrington Northern Ireland, said: ‘The prime market in Northern Ireland has reached a point of genuine maturity, and the best of it moves discreetly, between people who know one another, long before anything reaches a property portal.
‘In Belfast’s most sought-after postcodes, along the North Down coast and on the North Antrim shore, we are seeing well-priced, architecturally significant homes find buyers at a pace that would have been inconceivable a few years ago.’
