Trading up: Montenotte, Cork €365,000

Done up to the nines is No 8 St Christopher’s Road, in Cork city’s elevated Montenotte.

Also known as St Jude’s (Jude is the saint associated with hope and impossible causes), this is a fully reworked 1930s semi-d of external and internal character, on a corner site, and now extended up to 1,500 sq ft.