There is a sort of city sophistication to the finishes at this rural-set, architecturally-designed over-basement home, 20 minutes from Ballincollig and a few miles north of Enniskeane.

Beautifully-located, and big on several fronts, including energy efficiency, this Nohoval home is a nice and niche buy for those who savour coastal settings.

Trish Dromey dips a toe in a hidden cove and coastal offer with planning for a bigger three bed build.

Charming two-bed is just the ticket for first-timers, writes Trish Dromey.

The four-storeyed Alteration Centre in Bandon could be just the property for a first time buyer with entrepreneurial inclinations.

An angled hall and corridor links the two rectangular blocks of this four-bed family home called Rhiannon, a mile or two south of Innishannon, and about a 20-minute drive west from Cork city.

Only the quality, and colour, of the front door, at the Old Post Office in Cork’s Dunderrow near Kinsale gives any hint there might be something a bit special within, at this cottage/bungalow extended home,a converted Post Office.

IT’S a short enough run down hill to the sea from this big, stone-faced modern home called Sunfield House.

Dunworley, West Cork Price: €150,000

PORTIONS of this south Cork farm have been sold over the past ten years, but now 214 acres are for sale in one lot, through joint agents, Ernest Forde, of Hodnett Forde, and Joe McCarthy, of Irish and European, for offers in the region of €1.7m.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

SKEHARD ROAD, CORK CITY €245,000

Quaint hideaway has three bedrooms and is priced at €180,000. Tommy Barker reports

What a stunning location — and what a stunning piece of farmland.

With a vendor in the fashion business, it’s no wonder this pad is turning heads, writes Tommy Barker

An old mill complex is now an eye-catching four-bedroom property with pond, reports Tommy Barker

CONNA, CORK €340,000

THE fact that this potential hobby farm at Rearour, Aherla, Co Cork, is close to a major employment node at Brinny could help its chances of selling

New to market west Cork home is handily placed in Dunmanway, Tommy Barker reports

Tommy Barker scans a selection of trading up homes around the country.

A 227-acre farm at Coolkirky, Riverstick, Co Cork, was put up for sale back in 2008, just as the market went south, and it was subsequently withdrawn.

ERNEST FORDE of Hodnett Forde Property Services has concluded the sale of a 36-acre farm at Burrane, Timoleague for a sum believed to be in the region of €10,000-plus per acre.

HAGHILL House Farm is a new market entrant this week for the Hodnett Forde Property Services partnership, and this fine south Cork pasture land should generate keen interest.

ONE to watch, this is going to be sold — and most likely at its October 23 auction.

IT could be seen as a very clever buy, when you consider that this property has five acres in a location beside Innishannon in Co Cork.

DOWN in price in anticipation of a quick sale, this big, one-off at Carhue, Bandon is now on the market at €550,000, having hit the market at an initial asking price of €695,000.

AT Ballymountain, Innishannon, Co Cork, a farm is ripe for hobby buyers with the requisite ‘qualifications’.

THERE’S the option of more land with this 2,100 sq ft house at Dunderrow, Kinsale and it already sits on an acre of lawn.

Why would you leave a house as good at this? It seems hard to have to give up your bespoke property for the sake of a career, but that’s what has happened here at Kilcolman Park, in Bandon, Co Cork.

THE coast is no longer clear. First, and even second-time buyers are being priced out of West Cork's coastal regions with the result that demand inland has risen.