Tommy Barker finds that New England style, sea views and a gourmet food shop next door make for a great blend on Bantry’s Golden Mile.

Tommy Barker says Castletownsend’s Tot’s Cottage has something different going on behind its facade.

Farm land sales increased to more than €177m in 2014.

Auctions were where much of the sales activity was for the Irish market in 2014 — with Shame and Hunger actor Michael Fassbender among those showing an appetite for a slice of the action. 

Come November/December, typically there are very few houses (especially those with high price aspirations, or in the country homes market) come for sale. 

This Cork period home has a pretty perch — with precious parking space aplenty, writes Tommy Barker.

Sq m: 370 (4,000 sq ft)

YOU could nearly say that Dripsey Castle has only changed hands three times in over 500 years. There have been changes of name and co-joined dynasties, yes, but the property which began with a castle and finished with an apartment has been owned by just three families.

Location: Crookstown, Co Cork

A new survey shows the price paid for farmland across Ireland is rising in many parts with the exception of the Midlands and Southwest regions.

THE price of farmland seems to have stabilised, and, if anything, is showing a very marginal increase in some parts of the country, according to a report published yesterday by independent global property consultants Knight Frank Ireland, formerly Ganly Walters.

SALES of Irish farmland fell significantly in 2009 for the third year running, but there should be a levelling off by the end of this year, according to independent global property consultants Knight Frank Ireland.

Rose Martin checks out a rare Georgian gem in lush West Cork.

PITCHED at the commercial as well as the farming market, a farm in two townlands in Youghal, Co Cork, could be a nice little nest egg, and a nice little earner.

SPRINGFORT House at Kanturk, Co Cork, and its adjoining 30 acres have come on the market with a guide price of €1.54 million.

COMEDIAN Pat Shortt is still waiting for his punchline, before he laughs his way back to the bank.

FANCY living like a lord on the banks of the River Blackwater? — then here’s your chance. Mallow Castle comes on the market this week with a €7 million-plus price tag.

BUYERS at the very top end of the property market appear bullish about values — they are snapping up €1 million-plus properties about Munster.

HITTING an international market with a world-class property bristling with security features on the day the US attacked Iraq may be a blow to the best-laid sales plans of the French owners of an Irish mansion.

IN THE last few weeks of summer, when the country ticks over slowly, the property market slumbers in the muggy heat of August.