Trading up: Montenotte, Cork, €285,000

It’s already called Holmleigh, and now a bit more extra spending on this St Christopher’s Avenue, Cork City, home could make it all the more homely too.

Hitting the market just before Christmas Day, this is a slightly extended three-bed semi-d, dating to the mid 1900s, and priced at €285,000 by agents Timothy Sullivan Associates.

Holmleigh, and its immediate next door neighbour or ‘other half’, have a different look, done in dash and render, and both have converted what would have been original attached garages.