Trading up: Model Farm Road, CORK €240,000

Sq m: 92 (980 sq ft)

Beauty is in the eye of the buyer, as much as the beholder, and whoever buys the down-at-heel Mayborn on Model Farm Road should surely restore it to a thing of beauty.

So reckons estate agent Barry Nagle of Global Properties, saying “what is rare is beautiful, and this is a rare offer.”