Trading Up: Maryborough Hill, Cork €289,000

EVEN though No 20, The Drive, in Cork’s Broadale estate off Maryborough Hill is only about 1,100sq ft, its selling agent Jeremy Murphy describes it as “deceptively spacious”.

That’s probably down to the way the kitchen/dining room with breakfast bar is double depth, front to back of the house, and across the hall the main front sitting room links via double doors to a further rear reception room, so it does, in fact, seem airy.

Of course, it’s also on view for sale unfurnished and cleared out, so there’s no need to imagine it without the clutter of day-to-day life. Instead, viewers can just imagine where they’d put their own furniture.