A little love and attention needed

A low guide price reflects the fact that this house is an unfinished project, Tommy Barker reports

Bring your imagination and a small builder to 8 Balmoral Terrace, a do-er upper of a terraced home on Cork city’s Old Youghal Road, between Collins Barack and Dillons Cross. The century-old 800 sq ft three-bed house has had work done to it, but is a bit of an unfinished project: in it current state, it carries a guide price of €85,000, via agent Mark Gosling of Jeremy Murphy & Associates.

Depending on what a new occupant wants from it, and how it performs in a structural survey, a finishing budget can run from low thousands to several tens of thousand euro, tending towards the latter if it is going to be extended.