Trading up: Turners Cross, Cork €220,000

Sq m: 93 (1,010 sq ft)

The location’s good, the bungalow’s semi-detached and attractive in its own right — but the site of a third-of-an-acre is the star at Donmount.

Set near the football grounds at Turners Cross, but inside in quiet, horseshoe-shaped Mercier Park, this 1,000-plus sq ft home has been upgraded down the decades,and would take an extension of almost any size: heck, there’s almost enough space at the site’s boundary (which fringes the south city link road) for another house.