Trading up: Macroom, Co Cork

Out in mid-Cork countryside, about 40 minutes from the city near Kilnamartra is this heart-warming five-bed family home — it has a sauna with room enough to accommodate five persons as well.

Location is five or six miles west of Macroom, off the Cork-Killarney road if you turn off by the Mons bar, and auctioneer John O’Mahony of O’Mahony Walsh seeks offers around €290,000 for the two-storey detached house, on good grounds.