Higher Wood Street, Middleton, M24

This is a liveable two-bedroom semi with useful off-road parking, an enclosed garden and no onward chain. The visible work is mainly a light cosmetic refresh: the lounge’s patterned feature wall and the older kitchen and bathroom finishes offer scope to update the look without an obvious major repair project in the photos.

The price is the main constraint. At £165,000, the asking figure is around 17.5% above the local £/sqf average, and once a mid-to-substantial works programme is allowed for, the purchase cost and improvement spend look stretched against local benchmarks for a home of this floor area. That comparison is with current local averages, not a forecast of the value after renovation, so this is a more difficult value opportunity at the stated price.