Trading up: Blackrock, Cork, €695,000

Victorian style houses in the upmarket Lindville development in Blackrock continue to be among the most sought after trade-ups in Cork city.

The last house to come on sale in the development, No 54, sold in December for €738,000, substantially in excess of its guide of €650,000.

Thus the omens are good for No 33, the only Lindville house to hit the open market so far this year and which has just come on with a guide of €695,000.