Trading up: Ballinlough, Cork, €315,000

You don’t have to go backwards now to go forwards with the work needed on St Joseph’s, a detached four-bed home in Cork’s Carrigeen Park, off the city end of the Ballinlough Road.

The reason? The necessary underpinning and drains replacement work has been done to put the home back on a firm footing, so now it’s a case of onwards and upwards and probably out the back too.

An attractive-looking prospect, for those with the will, skills, and the extra funds, west-facing St Joseph’s needs a full refurb.