Close to college and the city with all the space a family could need

DESPITE the massive surge in supply in purpose-built student accommodation near UCC in Cork, most notably at Victoria Cross, investors continue to eye up houses as letable and bankable opportunities.

It might be expected that a number of houses in the college's vicinity could return to private residential usage given the thousands of new bedspaces provided existing families sometimes feel under siege during the academic year, with a mass exodus in summer.

A house new on the market on College Road, 5 Fernhurst, has all the space a family could need when looking to move close to the city centre, but the odds are that it will again go to an investor.