Trading up: Well Road, Cork €450,000

Just off the Well Road, and on a corner site with south and west garden and patio aspects in the Ardmahon estate in the greater Douglas/Ballinlough suburban hinterland is this large, five-bed family home, called Glencairn.

Weighing in at 2,500 sq ft, it’s bigger than any or most of its neighbours in the vicinity, although its ‘other half’ of the pair of semis is now recently updated, and similarly sized.

Auctioneer Kevin Barry of Barry Auctioneers guides Glencairn at €450,000, and says it’s a good mix of original charm and feel (such as feature stone and fireplaces) and updated, recarpeted accommodation.