IF ALLSOP Space is the daddy of the mass auction, with 112 properties being auctioned at the end of November, Merlin is perhaps the baby with 10 properties in different parts of the country going under the hammer on November 22nd.

The eight residential properties and two commercial investments range from €50,000 to €530,000 and include a three-bed maisonette at 15 Church Road in East Wall, Dublin 3, with a reserve of €65,000 which has been in the seller’s family for 120 years and 8 Marine Avenue in Sandycove, Co Dublin, a three-bedroom house with a more hefty reserve price of €530,000.

Turlough House in Ballyvaughan Co Clare, overlooking Turlough House, with five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a gym, has a reserve of €250,000.

Other properties are in Tipperary, Carlow, Cork, Longford and Galway.