WITH its great location the small home St John’s on Barrington’s Avenue off Cork’s Blackrock Road could make a good starter home for a young buyer or couple who’d then have the option of renting it out later on if they wanted to trade up.

A THREE-BEDROOM city bungalow is on offer in Cork’s Silversprings area for a manageable €210,000 – about the price of an apartment.

HOPING for a scrum of buyers is Gerard O’Dea, the selling agent for No 13 Highfield Lawn, on Cork city’s suburban Model Farm Road.

DIP a toe in the sea, or the property market, at a price that won’t break the bank.

STEADY nerves, and a bit of prior experience, are needed – but there’s quite possibly a good deal in the offing here.

AUCTIONS seem to be the way to go, according to Gerard O’Dea of Cohalan Downing & Associates, who sold number 4 Newenham Terrace on Cork’s Infirmary Road at auction last week.

THIS Victorian townhouse sold in the height of the boom for a sum in the mid-70s, but it took over a year to bring to contract and then the buyer backed out.

AN auction date, and a demolition ball, hang over a couple of older-style, interconnected semis in Cork’s Ballyvolane.

Rose Martin on two derelict period properties with stacks of potential.

BUNGALOW bliss — according to the brochure on 29 Dundanion Road, Blackrock, this house comes with a very ‘sunny disposition.

MONTENOTTE, has been a good address for at least 200 years, so as a property investment in Cork, you can’t go wrong.

THE tide rises and falls on one side of Castle Road in Cork’s Blackrock, while a short distance behind the €500 million Mahon Point development is expected to bring a rising local economic tide and a surge in property values too.

ALTHOUGH in need of a lick of paint and looking modest enough on the outside, this semi-detached Edwardian villa in Rushbrooke, Co Cork, has lots more unseen room.

BUYERS looking for a period-style property on the fringes of the city should give number 4 Pinewood the once-over.

WITH so few houses in the mid-range bracket on the market right now, there should be good viewing interest in this detached property on the heights of Montenotte in Cork city.

THE simple, pretty exterior of this cottage in Tower belies its spacious accommodation; it has three bedrooms, one of them a master bedroom that occupies the top floor.

SET up on Spur Hill rising out of Wilton and Togher in Cork, two bungalows currently on the market with 100,000 euro in price difference between them offer a flavour of country living and suburban convenience.