Take Five For €240,000:

TomMaher and Company is seeking €240,000 for this four-bedroom house at 31, The Drive, Millbrook Lawns, Tallaght, Dublin 24. EMMA CULLINANfinds properties at a similar price in Italy, France, Turkey and Portugal

TURKEY: Belek

There is a Nick Faldo-designed golf course opposite this contemporary four-bedroom villa. It is in a scheme of 26 homes on the south, Mediterranean, coast, 10 minutes from Kadriye beach and half an hour from Antalya airport. The villa has three bathrooms and the water is solar-heated. There are three terraces and a pool.

Price:€250,000

Agent:spotblue.co.uk, 0044-208-3396036

PORTUGAL: Algarve

This refurbished cottage is in the countryside between the towns of Santa Bárbara de Nexe and São Brás de Alportel, about 12km north of Faro. There is a lounge, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. Underfloor heating runs beneath terracotta tiles. There is a garden with a covered dining area.

Price:€250,000

Agent:portugalproperty.com, 0044-800-0148201

FRANCE: Gers

A mill race runs by this renovated 17th-century mill house surrounded by 2.5 acres (1.76 hectares) of its own land. The 230sq m house is a real character with plenty of exposed beams and stone walls. On the ground floor is a livingroom, study, kitchen and utility room. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two with en suite bathrooms. It is in the Condom region between Bordeaux and Toulouse.

Price:€240,000

Agent:latitudes.co.uk, 0044-208-3874090

ITALY: E milia Romagna:

Perfect your pizza-making in this stone house, which has a bread oven in its half-acre garden. The house is in an old borgo (hamlet) in the mountains 40 minutes south of Parma. The 260sq m house has a kitchen, dining and living rooms with fires and large utility spaces on the ground floor and five bedrooms, a bathroom and a study upstairs.

Price:€249,000

Agent:realpointitaly.com 0044-845-3312812