Dun Laoghaire £140,000-plus

Former local authority houses all over Dublin are commanding higher and higher prices, not just in neighbourhoods near the city centre, but also in areas such as Dun Laoghaire. Many of the people looking for houses like this one for sale through Douglas Newman Good at 123 Oliver Plunkett Road are first-time buyers who grew up in areas neighbouring this part of Monkstown, Co Dublin, but who couldn't afford to buy a house on the road they grew up on. This two-bed has polished timber floors in the livingroom and kitchen/diningroom, where there is a cast-iron fireplace with stone hearth. The main bedroom has polished timber floors and built-in shelving, and there is also a shower room upstairs.