About this Property
Charles Avenue, Fair View, Diego Martin is located heading North on the Diego Martin Main Road from Sierra Leone Road after turning off from the Diego Martin Highway (SuperPharm). The street is the 3rd street on the right heading northward along the Diego Martin Main Road. Keep straight at the little roundabout and then make a right into the 2nd street (it loops around so even if one misses the turn off one will still land up at the property. The area is an older development but the homes are well kept and are in the middle income bracket.
The property is strongly built and very well-kept, even being an older family residence. Upgrades were done over the years and the home is a sprawling single-storey with 5 bedrooms, 3 baths (master bath is ensuite), TV room and study in the bedroom wing (secured with a lock off door), and a wrap porch to the front with its entrance into the spacious living room area, separate dining room, and generous kitchen. There is also a big laundry room which doubles as extra storage and a maid’s quarters with ensuite bathroom to the side. There are storage rooms to the back of the property as well. Covered parking for 2 vehicles with open parking in the driveway for another 8 vehicles.
The pedestrian gate passes through the front lawn and front garden, into the front porch that leads into the living area. There is room for a pool at the far side of the garden, if one wanted to put one in, if not, there is a lot of room to plant one’s favourite flowers or trees. The land size is 12,547 sq ft of freehold land and the building is 4,375 sq ft living space. Great for a big family, a geriatric home, convalescing home or small maternity home, it might even catch the fancy of an ideal developer’s eye if they are willing to get the conversion approvals.
Call for your appointment early as it is a great buy. Asking $3,200,000.00 or nearest offer.
About the Region
Diego Martin
Diego Martin is a town and is the urban commercial center and capital of the Diego Martin region in Trinidad and Tobago. Its location in the region is just on the southeastern border, west of the capital city of Port of Spain and east of the town of Carenage.
Diego Martin in the Northern Range was once filled with a number of small valleys but is now a densely populated area. It was named after a Spanish explorer Don Diego MartÃn. The area was settled by French planters and their slaves in the 1780s. The town area is administered by the Diego Martin Regional Corporation and is the birth home of Empress Shebah 'Ra III and the home town of Miss Universe 1998, Wendy Fitzwilliam. Diego Martin is well known for St. Dominic's Pastoral Centre- The home of the Order of Preachers in Trinidad and Tobago, Shri Ram Dhaam SWAHA Mandir-The Shri Ram Dhaam SWAHA Mandir was built in 1998 and has a 15-foot animated murti of the Hindu deity Hanuman, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
Christ Child Convalescent Home-This home was founded by the Corpus Christi Carmelites who came to Diego Martin in 1945. "In 1946 the Mother Foundress opened the Christ Child Convalescent Home to take care of the poor children both in the community and outside of the community who were convalescing from illness. This was the first Children's Home in the country". Corpus Christi College-"Corpus Christi College was founded on September 8, 1959 by Corpus Christi Carmelites at the request of then Diego Martin parish priest, Fr Cyril Ward, CSSp. The first intake of students totalled 36, including Sr Petronilla, then known as Gloris Joseph". Diego Martin also has heritage and cultural sites such as River Estate Museum, Water Wheel, Valley Haps Steel Orchestra, Merrytones Steel Orchestra and Paramin village just to name a few. At least one mall, banks, supermarkets, pharmacies, gyms and other stores can be found in this town. The location of the mall made it an easy drop in place on the way home for the pickup of groceries or to deal with one's personal affairs.
