Trading up: Castlejane, Glanmire €325,000

Sq m: 164 (1,770 sq ft)

Trading-up house activity is picking up once more, with banks now facilitating existing home owners with tracker mortgages, and even if they are in negative equity many are now being facilitated to carry debt with them in a move.

So says estate agent Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy, after a few open viewing sessions (and a YouTube posting — clever), at the spotless, 1,770 sq ft detached trading-up home at 17, The Avenue, in Cork’s Castlejane Woods.