Starter home: Cathedral Road, Cork €170,000

Set behind Cork’s Church of the Ascension is a townhouse development called 20 Chapel Field, set off Cathedral and Presentation Roads, close to the Orthopaedic Hospital.

No 20’s a smart townhouse of about 1,100 sq ft, with walled and fenced back garden and shed, and internally one of its three bedrooms is en suite, plus there’s a guest loo. Agent Gillian McDonnell of Sherry FitzGerald guides at €170,000 and is doing open views today at 2.45-3.3pm, and later on Thursday afternoon.

VERDICT: Blessed setting.