Trading up: Model Farm Road, Cork €295,000

In most circumstances, No 10 Woodford would be snapped up by a family looking for a three/four-bed home in Cork’s western suburbs. But its location, almost on the doorstep of Cork Institute of Technology and near the old Fás training centre and business parks, might also put it on the radar of investor buyers.

The brick-faced, semi-detached modern home is just off the Model Farm Rd and Rossa Avenue, within a stone’s throw of the CIT campus and its superb sporting facilities, and is guided at €295,000 by estate agent Timothy Sullivan.

That’s for a home within a quiet cul de sac of just a handful of houses, in short terraces and semi-Ds,