Trading up: Glanmire, Cork €325,000

Sq m: 142 (1,560 sq ft)

A slight price drop comes with a change of agent, along with hopes of a New Year sale, at 4 Cois na Gleann, one of just four detached houses in this Sallybrook, Glanmire setting.

A short commute east of Cork City, Cois na Gleann’s four family homes were built in 2007, and are set apart visually from standard house facades thank to a projecting, angular, first floor window, with similar angled windows downstairs to the rear.

Estate agent Barry Nagle of Global Properties guides No 4 at €325,000, down from an earlier ask of €329,000 with a different agent. Last year another 1,400 sq ft home here, on a tighter corner site, by Barnavara Hill had a €320k asking price, and sold by year’s end for a recorded €291,000.

With just shy of 1,600 sq ft here according to Global Properties, lofty No 4 has a part-stone front facade and is very well finished inside, with a stove in the living room, there’s a family room, conservatory, kitchen/dining with utility, and guest WC, and overhead two of the four bedrooms are en suite, while the main family bathroom has a Jacuzzi-style bath. No 4’s has oil central heating, central vacuum, and a safe railed in play area for children

VERDICT: Good modern trader-up in convenient Glanmire and Sallybrook.