Trading up: Rosscarbery, Cork €225,000

Sq m: 90 (970 sq ft)

Even the house name, Lazy Acre, is evocative, with promises of summer pastures and birds’ song, hot days and evening BBQs: and maybe even a dip in the sea to cool off? It’s all on offer at Rosscarbery’s Lazy Acre.

Set just up off the Warren strand road at West Cork’s Rosscarbery, this older-style cottage is going to excite wishful longing and holiday home, or retirement home, hopes and dreams.