Trading up: Kinsale Road, Cork City, €215,000

The address is given as No 51 Slieve Mish Park, and this well-located three-bed semi-d proudly carries the name Regina on its name plate. But, it will need lots of TLC to get it up to a suitably regal state.

Weighing in at about 1,200 sq ft is this basic order home, with attached garage, within a cul de sac estate with houses (mostly pairings of semi-ds dating to the mid-1900s) ranged around a central block.

Slieve Mish is a lovely, quiet park off the Kinsale Road near an Aldi, Turners Cross, Musgrave Park and the new drive-thru McDonalds, with the South City Ring Road a two-minute drive away. Also due to open up any month now is the major public park developed across the Link Road.