Trading up: Midleton, East Cork, €490,000

YOU don’t see too many house sales in Midleton’s Woodlea – once people set up camp here, they’re inclined to stay, for years.

With just over a dozen individual homes here, and set just off the Cork road by Oatencake in the East Cork town, Woodlea was a development of serviced sites, each of them a pretty imposing half-acre, ranged around a green.

Almost universally, each home then built here rose to the site size, 2,000 sq ft and upwards, and many have grown even further since too. The last sale in Woodlea was offered in May in 2012, some 3,100 sq ft complete with outdoor swimming pool, featuring here as a House of the Week.