Rapid rise in fortunes at city pad: Friars Walk, Cork, €180,000

Sq m 67 (725 sq ft)

All done up in the past few months is No 7 Maymount, and almost as rapidly it’s back in the marketplace as an almost unrecognisable home.

The compact three-bed townhouse in a characterful cul-de-sac off Friars Road is guided at €180,000 by estate agent Mark Gosling, of Behan Irwin Gosling. A perusal of the Property Price Register shows No 7’s last sale in July of this year, at a mere €84,000, and prices of neighbouring homes at Maymount (a few dozen, in all) have gone from €54,000 to €75,000 in the past year for do-er uppers.