Options aplenty at Myrtleville

Location: Myrtleville, Cork, €95,000

Usually, auctioneers selling a house of limited size might point to its scope for extension, and for adding a further bedroom or two.

Now, while that might indeed be an option here at coastal Cooney’s Field, above Myrtleville beach and with Cork harbour’s mouth on its doorstep, the selling agent Andrew Moore takes a different sales pitch: he suggests reducing the number of bedrooms.