Trading Up: Ballinlough, Cork, €340,000

The onward march of price recovery is seen in Cork’s suburban Ballinlough, where an upgraded three-bed semi with attached former garage/bed four is now priced at €340,000 on its market launch this month.

No 22 Pic Du Jer is a fresh listing with agent Jeremy Murphy, and was underpinned, replumbed, rewired, and insulated around 2012... a bit after it last appeared (albeit misleadingly so) on the Price Register.

That register shows a transaction at No 22 back in 2011 for €24,120, but it carried a ‘two-asterisk’ caveat that the figure didn’t represent the house’s full market value, and so possibly was a inter-family transfer or a part-purchase.