Starter homes: Niche house in popular Orchard Close ready to be plucked

Location: Douglas, Cork

There will be viewing activity to be sure at 11 Orchard Close: these type of handy-sized suburban townhouses always sell well. This two-bed, 1,020 sq ft home needing a bit of TLC and doing up is in Ballincurrig park off the main Douglas Road, and is of a type built by Lanes in the 1970s in a few Douglas and Blackrock settings, popular in the day with traders-down.

This seems to have fitted that profile, and is dated: its €185,000 asking price probably reflects that. A neighbouring house here in this row, extended to the back, upgraded and with a good B2 BER, is sale agreed since its August launch, making over its €230,000 guide with agent Timothy Sullivan.