Trading up: Rochestown, Cork; €590,000

The address title, Kensington, was aspirational back in the day, when homes were built in the Cork suburb of Rochestown, for the upwardly mobile in Upper and Lower Kensington.

They were big houses back then, and they are still big in most family’s books today, impressing with space aplenty, some 40 years on.

Now, a good example of the type, Zetland in Upper Kensington, is getting steady viewing traffic with selling agent Timothy Sullivan, who guides the 2,500 sq ft home at €590,000.