Trading up: Douglas, Cork €535,000

Sq m: 178 (1,916 sq ft)

Schools are right on the doorstep of Soubirous, a large detached early 1960s-built family home in Cork’s Endsleigh.

Set just off the main Douglas Road, by Regina Mundi girls secondary school, is this market-friendly five-bed, with just shy of 2,000 sq ft within, and scope to go even larger thanks to it site, and aspect.