Trading up: Ballycotton, Cork €235,000

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

With what the agents say is an exceptional setting in East Cork’s Ballycotton, right on Main Street, the family home Ard na Ree should be a summer 2014 seller. The fact the interior is quietly impressive will help sway viewers too — if they can take their eye off the sea and harbour vistas.

Auctioneer Adrianna Hegarty in Midleton is selling this 1970s brick-built bungalow, with its 1,200 sq ft of space on nicely matured gardens.