Trading up: Off Magazine Road, Cork €315,000

Most of the houses of the same vintage as Kilcrea’s Park’s Rahara are by now showing their age here — so don’t be fooled by this home’s 1950s vintage and origins.

This extended three-bed semi-d is just off the Magazine Road in Cork’s handy inner western suburbs, and is new to market priced at €315,000 by auctioneer Jeremy Murphy.

He had almost 20 people at his first open viewing this week and the fact it needs no work is another key to its appeal, Mr Murphy reckons.