Trading up: Ballinlough, Cork €425,000

Billing No 1 Knockrea Lawn as a family home par excellence, estate agent Mark Rose notes there are four national schools all within walking distance of this four-bed, detached Cork suburban house, on the city end of the Ballinlough Road near Bellair estate.

In fact, it’s just around the corner too from Our Lady of Lourdes girls’ NS — pressed into polling station duty again yesterday, so a whole cohort may have seen the Rose Property Service ‘for sale’ board: auctioneer Mark Rose will be hoping for a vote of approval here.

Built around the 1980s, and extended since with a sun room wrap-around, there’s a good mix of space, inside and out, with a separate, detached study/gym/workshop by the drive. With a part brick and part dash exterior, No 1 Knockrea Lawn has a parquet-floored hall, two reception rooms, kitchen with Shaker units and breakfast bar, utility, and guest WC. plus sun room with pine sheeted ceiling.