Trading up: Tivoli, Cork €350,000 (site only)

Select new house developments are just underway in Cork city in locations like Church Road, Blackrock, and Feirm Bawn in Wilton, each for a handful of new homes - but there’s also sites for one-offs, if you know where to look.

Outside Douglas, Cohalan Downing have a 0.72 acre site with lapsed planning at new money Moneygourney, guiding €375,000, while at ‘old money’ Tivoli, underneath Montenotte, estate agent Andrew Moore has an absolute cracker of a site, all good to go.

He has a full wooded acre site, south facing, off Lover’s Walk, Tivoli, just a mile east of the city centre, with full planning for a new-build, grass-roofed eco home of 2,225 sq ft.