Trading up: Frankfield, Cork, €420,000

There’s a strong architectural look of its time to 4, Woodlands, in Cork’s Frankfield suburb: the detached brick and much glass-fronted home with a strip of vertical cedar cladding is 1970s in its demeanor, and now an even more serviced southside suburb.

Size: 142sq m (1,500sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 2