Trading up: Beaumont, Cork €330,000

Size: 92 sq m (1,000 sq ft)

You won’t have to look too far for extension suggestsions for the 1,000 sq ft three-bed semi-d called Barna — just look out the upstairs back windows at what some of the neighbours have done already — a bit like “here’s some we prepared earlier”.

Like many of Cork’s older inner suburbs, this Beaumont region is undergoing renewal, with most new buys given energy/insulation upgrades, and rear/side extensions. For sale for €330,000 with Sherry FitzGerald, Barna on Rosegreen Avenue is in good overall shape, dated but ripe for a make-over too: It has an attached garage and enough side width left for more build space — and the back garden is west-facing, overlooking some extended homes along Linden Avenue.