Trading up: Waterfall, Cork €395,000

Now just over 40 years of age, this detached home called Whitethorn’s due a makeover.

And, given its location just on the edge of Cork city beyond the new Marymount Hospital campus (that medical and hospice facility is just one large field away) on the way to Waterfall (see also area profile p2), it’s likely to get both viewing attention and bidding, then to be followed by a judicious upgrade and/or extension.

The two-storey 1,600 sq ft house is a basic four-bed (all doubles, though), with one bathroom, and a simple ground floor layout of hall, living room and L-shaped kitchen/dining room, with an attached garage.