Trading up: Lima Lawn, Cork City €280,000

There’s a glimpse of ‘the new’ to be had from the quite traditional No 19 Lima Lawn, in Cork’s suburbs near UCC and just off Magazine Road.

Directly opposite this three-bed semi-d newly up for sale is a very contemporary, 1,800 sq ft flat roofed detached home, one of the more crisp and assertive new-builds in the past decade in Cork. Called Montana, and with green credentials, it featured here in 2009, priced at €650,000, it was later reduced to €495,000 but doesn’t appear to have yet changed hands.

More likely to sell swiftly, and appealing to a range of buyers, is No 19 Lima Lawn, a well-kept but still quite original home, on an angled site in this popular location near UCC and the CUH.