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.

Number 8 is very attractively presented and comes with an open plan kitchen/dining area with pine kitchen and dresser and sliding doors to a walled-in garden and patio area.

The living room has a stone fireplace and overlooks the front and the kitchen area includes a utility.

Upstairs there’s a main bathroom, an ensuite master bedroom and two other double rooms, all with wooden floors. The house is part of a mature development in Bandon with entrance off the Bandon bypass. Henry O’Leary Property Partners are in charge of the sale.