Trading up: Douglas Road, Cork; €350,000

This four-bed semi-d called ‘La Puente’, inside and at the back end of the Endsleigh estate off Cork’s main Douglas Road, is primed for updating, once in new ownership.

A good, solid 1,500 sq ft home, it’s on a corner site in the park, beyond Regina Mundi girls’ secondary school, it has drains and underpinning works done, and the garage is already partially converted at the back.

Sharing a name with a town in Los Angeles county (puente also means bridge in Spanish) this suburban Cork La Puente carries a guide price of €350,000 with Sean McCarthy of ERA Downey McCarthy, who says it’s got a good mix of living and sleeping rooms.