You may strike a good deal in this listed city building

STEADY nerves, and a bit of prior experience, are needed – but there’s quite possibly a good deal in the offing here.

The sale by tender of a city period home and garden, acquired under a 19-year old Derelict Sites Act, holds the promise of a new life for 20 Connaught Place after several previous bids to sell.

The pre-Famine terraced Georgian house, in fairly rag order, but winsomely placed on Wellington Road in Cork city alongside some recently re-gentrified homes, has been both run down and let down, over the years.