Ardrostig, Cork €495,000

This house called Hillcrest, near Dunnes’ Bishopscourt in Cork’s was only built in the 1980s, so shouldn’t need any huge sums spent on it - it just needs discretionary modernising in its decor and some contemporary updates.

Detached with four bedrooms on a great Ardrostig/Waterfall site of 0.85 of an acre, it’s guided at €495,000 by selling agent Jackie Cohalan of Cohalan Downing; she stresses its sheer convenience of address, just off the ring road and the start of the Bandon road: it’s effectively a country property in an edge-of-suburbs setting, where your local shop is a massive Dunnes Stores.

A recent sale of an older house close-by saw a different agent (Jeremy Murphy) get €370,000 for Mount Ibane, on 0.75 acre, having guided at €400k.