Trading up: Carrigrohane, Cork €260,000

Sq m: 104 (1,120 sq ft)

A good start is half the job, the saying goes — and that’s exactly what Highfield will be in its next ownership: it’s a great springboard to what could be a fine family home in a great, edge of city location.

This three-bed bungalow is up on a steep, and densely shrubbed site of three-quarters of an acre a mile or so up Temple hill, above Cork’s Carrigrohane and the Anglers’ Rest.