Renovate and then accumulate

ENERGY and enthusiasm needed; rich rewards assured.

Cremartin, a three-bedroom detached house in quiet Croaghta Park in Cork, is a renovator/extender’s dream. Close to the city centre, in a quiet cul de sac with a west-facing back garden and off-street parking, it has a lot going for it but also needs a lot.

“It’s ideal for a DIYer,” says estate agent Noelle Morrison, though in truth she is probably pitching it at a semi-professional renovator: it needs more than the cracks papered or plastered over.