Trading up: Tivoli, Cork €385,000

Sq m: 173 (1,870 sq ft)

Concerts and sporting dramas have come gratis to the residents of 14, Tivoli Estate, with the blustery name of Windy Heights.

Set above the River Lee just east of Cork City, houses in the Tivoli Estate overlook the Marina and especially Páirc Ui Chaoimh, the GAA stadium which is now due a renaissance.