A Cork City quayside prime redevelopment block may be about to move from trough to peak, with the planned sale of a key corner building, McLaughlins, which even — appropriately — has a

There were close to 10 transactions of Kinsale homes over €1m in 2019, writes Tommy Barker

A magical touch has been added to Locmor since it last came on the market a decade ago, writes [Tommy Barker

Architects, tortoises and spaniels have colonised thisend-terrace Cork city home, writes Tommy Barker.

FOR SALE: Bachelor Pad, one careful owner for the past 88 years.

Tommy Barker visits a property that has the best of both worlds, set in a rustic idyll yet just a short hop in the car to the bright lights of the city

There’s always been a sort of wayward independence attached to the coastal Cork property Walton Court — and, little wonder really, as this historically colourful house dates back to 1776, the same year as the US Declaration of Independence.

A generous-sized, high-end home even comes wrapped for Christmas cheer, writes Tommy Barker[.

Old Blackrock Road refurbed home is in walk-in condition, and is an easy walk to all of Cork city centre’s services and amenities too, says Tommy Barker.

IT MIGHT sound dismissive, but the blunt fact is the least interesting part of Water’s Edge is the house itself.

Earlier times and days of gentrified pastimes are recalled in the name-place of Kinsale’s Bowling Green, Tommy Barker reports.

Earlier times and days of gentrified pastimes are recalled in the name-place of Kinsale’s Bowling Green, Tommy Barker reports.

It needs modernisation, can be easily added to but as Tommy Barker suggests it’s got a Cork posh swagger about it, just ‘Ask Audrey’.

From Gone with The Wind to Celine Dion, this beauty is an all- singing all-dancing showstopper, says Tommy Barker

400-piece train set packed away, it’s full steam ahead to a new destination for the owners of No 12 Abbotswood, reports Tommy Barker.

Plum-set Kinsale Mall house overlooks harbour, marina and town with equal aplomb, says Tommy Barker

If you love boats, dinghies and the sea, No 2 Dolphin Terrace will be right up your street: directly across the road from this early 1990s semi-d is the dinghy park of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

Yewlands “is in one of the best developments in the Douglas area”.

Following ‘sale agreeds’ on two 1960s houses, one a detached, the other a semi-d, in the ‘old’ 1960s Bellair Estate off Douglas Road and by the start of Ballinlough Road in Cork, now comes a younger model, and a different house type too.

No 22, Augusta Drive is in the upmarket Maryborough Hill and is of excellent quality, says Tommy Barker.

With a string of Ballintemple/Blackrock house sales under and well above the €1m mark No 8 is one of the, ahem, more ‘affordable’ offers for the fortunate few.

Two for the road at High Street’s Bridge House, says Tommy Barker.

Outstanding it its field, in a literal sense especially, is this big, Kinsale region family bungalow at Clonleigh, spanning a decent 2,000 sq ft, but even that is dwarfed by its size: it’s on a very considerable 11 acres, set in the midst of several paddocks. With sea and harbour views.

The 5,000 sq ft ‘Buncoille’, in Monkstown, has a master bedroom the size of a city flat, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker on a house with harbour views and lots of potential.

Could there be a more appropriate, atmospheric time to launch the sale of Carrigrohane Castle than All Hallows Eve, or Halloween?

PRICES are back on the march in Cork’s suburban and high-end Hettyfield: but, they are still are a long way short of boom-time levels of €1m and even €2m asking prices and sales.

Perched high above the harbour and as picturesque, quaint and historic as the town itself, Kinsale’s Southwell Alms Houses are being put out to tender today with a view to preserving their antiquity and architectural integrity while giving them a new lease of life.