Trading up: Glanmire, Co cork €270,000

Sq m: 120 (1,288 sq ft)

What’s in a name? The sales image for this 1980s bungalow really lives up to its name: the house is called Roseville, and to reinforce the impression a blooming pink rose is prominent in the main brochure picture.

This Roseville is in the Hermitage section of Glanmire, Co Cork, near the Cork-Dublin road (it’s by the M8 flyover north-east of Glanmire) and all services, and is a 30-odd year old four-bed family home with work done recently in insulation upgrades, with walls pumped and attic given an extra ‘duvet’ layer of warmth, but it has huge extra scope for extensions.