Trading up: The Lough, Cork, €320,000

Sq m: 165 (1,798 sq ft)

There’s no grass to cut at Evora, but with the Lough amenity and wildfowl sanctuary 100 yards away, there’s the great outdoors on the doorstep in any case.

Evora’s an upgraded one-off dormer bungalow, which was done head to toe about 15 years ago, at the Lough end of the Togher road on Cork’s southside.