Where it could pay to buy outside city

JUST up with auctioneer, Henry O’Leary, is a smart, three-bedroomed house at 8, Greenfields in Bandon, Co Cork.

This detached home with three bedrooms shows what good value can be had outside of the city - this house is priced at €200,000.

Its equivalent in Cork city would be a one to two-bed doer upper, so for those prepared to commute, you get, as the economists say, more bangs for your bucks.