A solid investment in the city

A GOOD, solid house in a superb location, St Bernard’s at 51 Magazine Road, Cork, is on the market at €450,000, not as you’d expect from the name, €449,999.

A rental property until recently, it will need cleaning up and refurbishing, but the price reflects that, says Stephen Clarke of O’Donoghue Clarke.

With five bedrooms and a location in Cork’s University Quarter, the property is highly accessible to all parts of the city.

Tucked into its site off the Magazine Road, most of the ground is to the front, where there’s plenty of parking, with a small patio area to the rear.

In that respect, it would suit older families, or those sending children to college as mortgage rates at the moment would come in a lot cheaper than rental levels in the long term.