It can’t have been that hard for agents Savills to establish the appropriate asking price for No 52 Heatherfield: it’s €635,000— the same sum No 18 Heatherfield recently sold for.

There’s a choice of Broadale homes this week, on Cork’s Maryborough Hill above Douglas, where €225,000 might buy you a three-bed, 930 sq ft semi-detached bungalow, but a further €55k or so could get you in the door of the two-storey, 1,140 sq ft home at 17 The Drive.

Secret Garden is a family-owned stone cottage right next to a beautiful park on the Beara Peninsula, says Trish Dromey.

If the €650,000 asking price on 25 Limeworth is out of many family-buying budgets, agents Sherry FitzGerald have another three-storey local offer for exactly half the price - a four-bed mid-terraced home at 35 Leslies Arch, guiding €325,000.

A one-time showhouse for one section of the large O’Brien and O’Flynn Maryborough Ridge development is for sale now with agents Paul O’Shea and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald: they guide at €375,000 for the four-bed semi-d at No 11 Edgewood.

Marfield House sits on 390 acres and has planning for a golf course and hotel.

Sq m: 190 (2,050 sq ft)

MARYBOROUGH HILL, CORK €225,000

Irish estate agents chain Sherry FitzGerald Group PLC said it is to create a nationwide mortgage brokerage service with Dublin-based Simply Mortgages Ltd.