NOT every one-off house built during the boom was a McMansion — for every monster-sized block of a house mindlessly plonked in a field, there’s probably another built just right for its setting, and more discretely placed.

THERE were only a handful of detached houses among the 65 new properties built at Belfield Abbey on Cork city’s Boreenmanna Road, and now one of the largest, and on the biggest site of all, is for sale with a €580,000 price quoted by Sherry FitzGerald.

STEEL yourself: the launch of trading-up homes priced at €655,000 brings the steel-frame house building market to new levels.