Starter homes: Tory Top Road, Cork €185,000

Sq. m: 88 (950 sq ft)

As suitable for a trader-down as a starter-out, is this handily-set bungalow called Shannon Lee, with three bedrooms and blooming, lovely gardens. The three-bed home is at the bottom of Tory Top road, near a new housing scheme and an Aldi, with Musgrave Park and Turners Cross soccer pitch equally adjacent.

In very clean order, and with two reception rooms and kitchenette, it also has neat-as-a-pin gardens front and back, with a novel roofed barbecue house and mature boundaries. Estate agent Jeremy Murphy guides at €185,000.