We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and county.

In the same ownership since it was first built in 2007, and finished out back then too to higher than standard spec, is the detached No 17 Cois Na Criann, off the Ballymaloe Road in east Cork’s Cloyne.

Billed as a ‘redesigned home’ is 81 Leslies Arch, in the Old Quarter section of O’Flynn Construction’s Ballincollig Town Centre, and as viewers today at an 11am open viewing might see, it’s all been freshened up to be a walk-in job for new occupants.

Job done. Having put a roof over the heads of a family with seven children, this 1991-built 3,000 sq ft home called Stonewalls at Glinny near Riverstick and within a short drive of Kinsale, is up for sale, and ready to do service all over again.

There’s an open viewing next Thursday of the showhouse at the four-home development Bellview Court, just above the Ring of Kerry Road at Ballydowney outside Killarney.

You won’t be caught for space at 38 Richmond Wood. But you might be caught for time, if viewing at today’s 4-4.30 open viewing slot, via agents Sherry FitzGerald. 

The tracks of the West Cork Railway might have been pulled up, and the land given back to farmers, but there’s memories galore still of the glory days of rail and routes west of Cork city, past viaducts, through tunnels, and over bridges.

A sympathetic renovation job has been done to No 73, Ardmahon Estate, just off Cork’s Well Road in the midst of Ballinlough and Douglas suburban hinterland, and now — unless new owners might choose to extend — it’s for sale now as a clean, walk-in job.

A former orchard attached to a period home in Cork’s salubrious Ballintemple suburb may be about yield the last of a long-lasting once-bumper crop. The latest apple set to fall from the trees is 1 Ardcairn Mews.

You need do nothing bar move your family into Cobh’s No 2, Coolamber Avenue, as it’s already extended, has four bedrooms, has been wrapped in insulation and has new windows, bathrooms, kitchen, heating... the works, really.

Lots of boxes are ticked at 40 Sandymount Avenue, in Cork’s Glasheen, so a new owner can just move in and start their own personal tweaks, as they see fit.

Following ‘sale agreeds’ on two 1960s houses, one a detached, the other a semi-d, in the ‘old’ 1960s Bellair Estate off Douglas Road and by the start of Ballinlough Road in Cork, now comes a younger model, and a different house type too.

There’s almost grazing for a pet pony or two to be had at the Ballincollig suburban home at 69, Old Court, thanks to its setting at the end of a cul de sac.

The severe shortage of accommodation on the west of Cork city has seen huge demand for property across the board, says auctioneer, Derek Dorgan. 

Described as an attractive and bright detached family home by Adrianna Hegarty of Hegarty Properties, this country house at Bawnard doesn’t disappoint and has huge amounts of space to offer a growing family. 

Property Partners Gallivan say properties like 1, Cnoc na Rí at Ballydowney in Killarney, Co Kerry, are becoming hard to find.

At the upper end of the market in Bandon, Co Cork comes an attractive dormer property at Templemartin with a guide of €425,000.

There are two faces or facades to the quality and deceptive family home called Aisling.

Trading up in West Limerick could be spacious, comfortable, and energy efficient at this three/four-bed detached house at the Commons near Ballingarry.

There’s been a few recent strong house resales in the Clarkes Wood portion of the broad mix of schemes at Mount Oval, and now into the fray comes the three-storey four-bed, No 7.

With 3,000 sq ft on offer, there’s more than enough house in Béal na Laoi for almost any family — but, there’s more to it than that. 

A sizeable price drop, now down to €390,00, will put this Norwood Court, Rochestown, home onto the radar of those looking for a good-sized family home.

The Slieve Mish Mountains provide a scenic backdrop for this substantial four bed detached house at Keel, Castlemaine, in South West Kerry. 

There’s something futuristic about the sloping front facade of Garnish, a building at Lancaster Gate, the site of the former Jurys Hotel.

This three-bed bungalow by Cork’s Lough and a SuperValu takes up just one-twentieth of its site — so, there must be scope to do more with it?

Set at the back of the Woodlands development in Cork’s Frankfield suburb is this one-off bungalow, on a stand-alone quarter acre site, and it’s called Elm House.

A whole lot of property comes with lofty Knockduff House, a few miles north of Dunmanway, in a scenic but inland section of the region.

No 6 Jamesmount was last offered for sale two years ago, in great order, guiding €610,000.

Spacious, close to town and in show house condition is how selling agents Sherry FitzGerald Reynolds describe this four-bed house at 3 The Paddocks in Dungarvan.

Now 25 years old, Belmont House at Cork’s Rathpeacon is “stylish, spacious and secluded,” says its selling agent Frank Walsh, of O’Mahony Walsh of this 2,800 sq ft home, on a site of 1.5 acres which includes a tennis court, and an elevated patio with views to Blarney Castle in the distance.