Trading up: Cobh, Cork Harbour; €250,000

You need do nothing bar move your family into Cobh’s No 2, Coolamber Avenue, as it’s already extended, has four bedrooms, has been wrapped in insulation and has new windows, bathrooms, kitchen, heating... the works, really.

It even, if you go upstairs and peer out, has got a view down over the brow of the hill to Cork harbour.

No 2 dates to the 1970s, but in no way feel its age, says local Cobh estate agent Johanna Murphy who lists this 1,340 sq ft home at €250,000, and she says it is ideal for a young and growing family, within a downhill walk of the town and water’s edge.