Starter home: Cork City €185,000

Size: 84sq m (900 sq ft)

A small, infill scheme of four or five new homes on Cork city’s Evergreen Road sold out in short order late last year, with new owners just moving in.

For those who were too slow off the mark there, here’s a consolation prize, albeit dating to the 1990s. Evergreen Court gets its name from the old Evergreen bacon factory, as this development of terraced townhouses is built on the factory site.