Already immaculately turned out, the new owners of this Blackrock showhouse won’t need to worry about decorating for a while, writes Tommy Barker.

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. 

The one-off, fully-furnished three-bed was one of two show apartments in Blackrock House, writes Tommy Barker.

Fancy going up in the world, in Cork’s Blackrock, at an affordable price into the bargain? 

SET just a few minutes’ walk away from the heart and soul of Cork’s Blackrock village’s new plaza by the pier is the Eden development.

The former home of composer John Gibson hits all the right notes, says Tommy Barker

City chiefs have been asked to crack down on unauthorised parking on a new riverside plaza which was unveiled just weeks ago as part of a €2m regeneration.

Brian Olden and Jackie Cohalan of Cohalan Downing Auctioneers (CDA) say “it’s a high-quality property, with a wonderful flow to it, ideal for family living or entertaining.”

The name of this house along Cork city’s lovely and leafy Marina promenade works on two levels. 

CORK CITY will have a new landmark design building later this year, in one of it most prominent settings - half way up the vertiginous St Patrick’s Hill. A school redevelopment there has been designed by the winners of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey.

Ciara Judge is taking it all in her stride, being one of the top young scientists and now one of Ireland’s top brains, after getting 12 A’s in her Junior Certificate.

BEN KIELY (Ferrybank AC) produced another sensational, record-breaking performance in the final of the boys’ 400m hurdles to claim a second gold medal for Ireland at the European Youth Olympics in Trabzon, Turkey, yesterday.

THE case for refurbishment of the two 19th century buildings which are home to St Angela’s College was first examined in 1999.

WHEN I set up home many years ago in what’s now the Cork suburb of Blackrock, it seemed we were living in the countryside.

TWO-bed penthouses with roof gardens in the grandly-titled Eden scheme in Cork’s Blackrock are priced at €500,000, and four-bed townhouses of 1,750 sq ft are €577,500; so, what price an original three-storey Victorian home across the way?

SEPTEMBER’S selling season and new product launches are in full swing - but the message for first-time buyers is ‘prepare to leave town’.

THERE’S not a lot of trading up options within the relatively affordable category in Cork’s Blackrock suburb - and, in fact, until the new Ursuline Convent development (mostly apartments) steps into gear early next year, there’s precious little anywhere in the area to buy.