Starter homes: Old Blackrock Road €165,000

Sq m: 93 (1,000 sq ft)

Not exactly for the faint-hearted — but the location couldn’t be handier, that’s the do-er upper called Ardcaoim.

The old-style three-bed semi with charming west-facing back garden is on Rockboro Avenue, just off the city end of the Old Blackrock Road and the Boreenmanna Road — about 100 metres away from the south city link.