Trading up: Rochestown, Cork €445,000

Size: 208 sq m (2,230 sq ft)

Not one, not two, but three different houses were built over a number of years by the German Lentzy family who’d set up Hele Windows in Cork over 30 years ago, and the last one of their three builds was a large affair, complete with indoor swimming pool, called Villa Sol.

Now, one of two other, earlier Lentzy homes has come up for sale, up by the Rochestown monastery a short spin out of Douglas and the south city ring road. New this month with agent Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing is this quietly-spoken split-level 1972-built bungalow at Monastery Cross. It last changed hands in 1982, when the current owners bought it from the Lentzys. Now the occupants here are trading down.