Trading up: Ballinlough, Cork €370,000

The sale in the past year of a corner-set, all-done up home at Ballinlough’s Somerton Park set a recent price record, of €367,500, having initially gone to market at €295,000 in a very frenetic mid-summer 2015 market.

Size: 89 sq m (968 sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 1