Trading Up: Maryborough Hill, Cork, €775,000

Savills had nine houses and apartments to sell for Nama this month at Cork’s Maryborough Woods, expecting quick sales, at prices from €185,000 for a two-bed, to €430,000 for a 2,000 sq ft four-bed semi.

Amid that fray from new home hunters, they might find some quieter time for viewings at Key West, a mid-1900s detached family home on 0.3 of an acre, just on the Douglas village side of the Maryborough House Hotel.

The location’s considered superb; Douglas village on the doorstep, hotel and spa 200 yards away, near Douglas Golf Club, and this stretch of bungalows faces towards The Paddocks, and Douglas House, where Ronan O’Gara built a large house on a profile, wooded site.