Trading Up: Fernwalk, Ballincollig €550,000

Light, bright and airy, it’s the rear kitchen/dining extension that will woo viewers most of all at the detached, family home 87 Fernwalk.

Built as part of the Greenfields development on the edge of Cork’s Ballincollig, the two-storey home has an extended kitchen, linking into a triple-aspect dining room, and the same light porcelain tiled floor, so that light coming in windows, from an overhead Velux, or from the myriad of recessed spotlights, gets bounced about with airy abandon.

It’s the clincher when showing No 87, admits estate agent Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald, who says it is backed up by three other reception rooms, a front lounge with open fireplace, front den/study, and a family room with patio and garden access.