Trading up: Frankfield, Cork City, €385,000

The detached family home at 14 Dunvale Grove has been topped and tailed with add-ons: it has a sun room extension to the back, as a sort of tail, while up top it has a tremendous long attic conversion — over 20’ in fact, with proper stair access, and has sloping ceilings, spot lights, lots of sockets and an internet connection, smoke alarm, and a partial glass-block wall section, to allow light penetrate down to the second stairwell.

Now, after the work has been done and colonised, it’s is up for sale, listed this month with agents Jeremy Murphy Associates, who reckon there’s 1,500 sq ft here, excluding the attic.

Mr Murphy bills the house as a very good trading up option for families, as the location at Frankfield’s so good, the setting’s within a cul d sac, there’s plenty of space inside and out, and a good balance has been strck between the number of bedrooms, and living areas.