Trading up: Well Road, Cork, €325,000

Many hundreds of apartments got built in the ‘noughties’ in and around Cork city and suburbs, but only a fraction of those were designed for full-time, owner occupation.

With each of its 33 apartments averaging about 1,200 sq ft, or about the size of a standard three-bed semi-d, Douglas Wells is one of the latter, rarer apartment varieties, built in suburban Douglas and quite possibly more suburban than urban in its appeal.

Location is just off the Well Road, at the Douglas village end near where the traffic backs up each evening, but access is - handily - rom within the Douglas Hall Lawn estate of 1960s homes overlooking the discrete estuary reaches.