Starter homes: Ballinlough, Cork €290,000

Size: Sq m 101 (1,085 sq ft)

Coming hot on the heels of a recent ‘sale agreed’ in the same suburban enclave is 10 Knockrea Mews, a semi-d off the city end of Cork’s main Ballinlough Road. It’s new to market with Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald who guides at €290,000, and who says it now just needs some modernisation and updating of decor, on top of the purchase price.

No. 10 arrives for sale just after No 6 four doors away got a rapid dispatch via agent Jeremy Murphy: No. 6 appeared in these pages a month ago with a price guide of €275,000 which was considerably exceeded in bidding — thought to have comfortably topped €300,000.