Trading Up: Ballincollig, Co Cork €355,000

Unless you are up with the lark and reading this in the dawning light, you might have to rush to the first open viewings of 52 Leslies Arch: This three-storey mid-terrace townhouse is an open book today, on view at 10.45am, for a half-hour window only.

It’s a new listing in Ballincollig’s Old Quarter, part of the town’s dramatic new millennium makeover on the old barracks site.

Estate agent Norma Healy, recently appointed as a director with Sherry FitzGerald, guides the tall home with military bearing and gloss kitchen at €355,000.