Trading up: Ballincollig, Cork €380,000

Size: 184 sq m (1,980 sq ft)

Only a few weeks on the market, and bids on No 5 The Meadows in Classes Lake have gone over the asking price, with interest in the main from older first-time buyers, who now want to purchase as the market is in apparent recovery mode.

No 5 is already at €400,000, and it’s not hard to see why — the recently added rear extension lifts it into a higher plane. The owners bought here just west of Ballincollig about eight years ago, overlooking the rugby club, and they completed a quality rear extension a year ago. The building experience didn’t put them off, as they are now set to build a one-off home, hence this sale via Niamh Moloney of Sherry FitzGerald. At an open viewing, she had ten parties through it, nine of them cash/mortgage-approved buyers.