Just refurbished from top to bottom is 1 Upper Glasheen Road, a two-bed house with an appeal to first time buyers, and owner/occupiers with a handy location.

City buyers cutting cloth to their financial means, stressing location over size Tommy Barker reports.

Within the price grasp of better-off first time buyers at €250,000, but also big enough to be a home for all stages of the family cycle, is this spotless Ballinraha bungalow, near Blarney.

QUIETLY on the market before Christmas, (when the market was nothing else), no 10 Berkeley, on Carr’s Hill, Douglas, is a tick-box buy for million euro shoppers.