Model Farm Road, Cork, €365,000

If you could, somehow, squirrel away €1,000 a day, you’d have this detached family home all paid for in a year’s time: Its €365,000 asking price is a grand for ever day in the year. Wouldn’t it be grand?

Tucked away at the back of the Rossbrook development off Cork’s western suburban Model Farm Road is No 87, which overlooks the playing fields of near-neighbour Cork Institute of Technology.

The college is out of sight, and the house’s setting is within a quiet cul de sac, and beyond the playing pitches is the Curraheen River, with amenity walks along some of its length nearby, leading back towards the Lee Fields.

Rossbrook was built about 20 years ago by O’Flynn Construction, and the house type is all but identical to O’FC’s Kiltegan homes across the city at Rochestown.

Here in the western city stretches, on the edge of the green belt, No 87 is for sale with Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald, who had a few days of open viewing in the weeks before the holidays, and he feels it’s going to be bought as a family home above all else.

VERDICT: A good mix of living and sleeping space, with 1,345 sq ft, two receptions, utility, four beds and three bathrooms. And, it’s all easily boosted a bit, as the garage is ready for conversion.