Trading up: Glasheen, Cork, €295,000

Lots of boxes are ticked at 40 Sandymount Avenue, in Cork’s Glasheen, so a new owner can just move in and start their own personal tweaks, as they see fit.

Set amid a threaded grid of mid 1900s-built estates between the Glasheen Road and Clashduv Road and close to Wilton, No 40’s a well-kept family home, with interconnecting reception rooms, and a recently re-done kitchen with guest WC by a side garage.

There’s a ground floor added-on rear sunroom too, overlooking very well shrubbed and tended back gardens, with a south-west aspect. Look out over past those screening bounds, and you might glimpse the goal posts of St Finbarr’s Hurling and Football Club, and Neenan Park too, while also close to hand is Clashduv Park and playground, all serviced by the 216 bus.