A CORK city house that has been a life-saving, holistic home-from-home for many hundreds of persons given cancer diagnoses now looks set to return to private, family accommodation and ‘domestic service’ once more.

Trish Dromey says high priced sales are rare on the Ennis Road, now is your chance to join the nouveau ‘niche‘.

IS €800,000-plus “the new €1 million?” It might well appear so, given the number of quite high-end Cork suburban properties which have come up for sale in the latter half of 2017, at the €850k-plus price level. 

Tommy Barker on a Douglas home with three-floors of accommodation.

Limerick City planners have been left red-faced over their objection to two neighbours restoring their roofs to their original red slate colour.

There’s a good, westerly aspect to the back garden of No 5, The Avenue, out in Ballincollig’s Coolroe Heights.

A local authority has called in the country’s top planning referee to decide if two suburban neighbours should get a yellow card over painting their roofs red.

Sunday’s Well, Cork city €325,000

Sq m: 260 (2,800 sq ft)

House for sale, or house for sail?

Spacious suburban home will benefit from new flyovers, ensuring end of traffic bottlenecks, says Tommy Barker

No 5 Fitzgerald Place comes at an affordable price and also has some privacy, Tommy Barker reports

IT’S one of the those villages banded around the greater Cork area and Crookstown has a good road connection to the city.

SPRING’S definitely in the air and the selling time for two period Cork homes with water aspects is nigh.

A HOUSE in one of the finest Georgian squares outside of Dublin, King’s Square in Mitchelstown, has come up for sale.

THE former Backpackers’ Lodge in Schull has taken itself up a notch or two, but hasn’t lost sight of its green credentials.

MENTION Menloe, and Cork’s upwardly mobile house hunters get all misty-eyed: the address sets off alarm bells of covetousness.