It needs modernisation, can be easily added to but as Tommy Barker suggests it’s got a Cork posh swagger about it, just ‘Ask Audrey’.

A sympathetic renovation job has been done to No 73, Ardmahon Estate, just off Cork’s Well Road in the midst of Ballinlough and Douglas suburban hinterland, and now — unless new owners might choose to extend — it’s for sale now as a clean, walk-in job.

Although Curraheen needs work, it’s a Well Road prospect well worth considering.

IF you can believe them, house price surveys and market commentators say price drops are close to bottoming out on older houses, in long-established and popular city residential locations.

AUCTIONEER Billy Casey has a choice of two solid semis on offer in the inner Cork city suburbs at the moment.