Trading up: Ardbrack Heights, Kinsale €300,000

THERE aren’t too many places in Cork where a one-bed apartment is priced at €300,000 - but, a spot like Ardbrack Heights in Kinsale is one of a very few such exclusive settings.

Built in one of the first blocks of this long, hillside sprawl of one, two and three beds and duplexes, No 2 is one of the smaller, more niche offers in this 1980s development, which was nicknamed Heineken Heights years ago, as its pension fund developers at the time were Dutch.