Starter home: Dublin Hill, Cork €190,000

Size: 79 sq m (850 sq ft)

You could almost build another house in the grounds of 10 Marian Park (top pic), as its corner site is so large.

The older-style house currently also has a large mechanics’ detached garage standing beside it, which has been used for a home business, and there are lots of options for it all, plus scope for extending, says Gillian McDonnell of Sherry FitzGerald.