Trading Up: Glanmire, Cork €395,000

Estate agent Jackie Cohalan will ‘split’ the difference with home hunters in 2017, offering split-level living options in locations like Glanmire and at Passage West, where she’s selling a dozen serviced sites, including five for split-level, new-builds.

In Glanmire, the Cohalan Downing agent has the fully finished family home 3 Glean Caoin up for sale, on a sloping site,and with an upside down/split level internal layout to suit the site’s topography.

She guides the 1,767 sq ft four-bed No. 3 Glean Caoin at €395,000, noting it has one of its four bedrooms upstairs with an en suite and has three more below.

The top level also has two reception rooms, kitchen/diner, study/playroom and has Stira attic access.

It’s one of eight-only houses in the scheme, within a walk of Glanmire village, with an attractive rear garden.

Meanwhile, in Passage West, Cohalan Downing have three of 12 serviced sites reserved at Cill Mhuire, off Church Hill by Marmulane.

They have planning for either split level houses or large bungalow homes, on sites averaging one-sixth of an acre. Prices for the remaining nine Cill Mhuire plots are €180,000/€185,00 per site.

It’s located above and by the entrance off Passage West’s Church Hill Ard Chuain, a scheme of large and upmarket one-offs.

VERDICT: Time to split city.