Trading Up: St Clare’s Avenue, Cork City, €295,000

Billed as ripe for doing up is the rather tired, early 1900s semi-detached home St Clare’s House, on St Clare’s Avenue, near Cork’s UCC, Bon Secours and the Brookfield complex, all within a walk of the city centre.

The west-facing house, with 180’ long back garden plus front garden, with off-street parking and a fifth dormer bedroom up at attic level is quite solid, with many internal original features of the c1920s, and is guided at €295,000 by selling agent Jackie Cohalan of Cohalan Downing auctioneers, who says it’s going to need doing up.

She has just sold a fully redone, exceptionally fine home here, No 7 with over 2,000 sq ft which made over €500,00, and that might give lots of ideas to whoever buys St Clare’s House: quite a few other homes along this student-y stretch between College Road and Magazine Road have also had various styles of extensions grafted on.