Trading Up: Monkstown, Cork Harbour, €495,000

Lofty views over Cork Harbour come gratis with this ‘upside-down’ house Lisard, or No 3 Diamond Hill, in Monkstown.

An updated and extended split-level family home, with wood-clad first floor extension on one end, this is now a sizeable four-bed property, notes its selling agent Michael Pigott, who adds there’s “a great blend of both living and bedroom accommodation with the living quarters and a large balcony on the first floor in order to appreciate and capture the amazing views.”

Diamond Hill is a sort of zig-zag development of popular, detached houses a walk via Chapel Hill to Monkstown village and there are three off to one side, away from the other two tiers, and Lisard’s one of this trio, with private gardens and decked areas. Resales are rare: No 15 sold four years ago for €320,000, according to the Price Register.