Knocking down and replacing isn’t anything at all new in Ireland’s house market, and especially so in rising and buoyant markets (current tail-end 2018 economic jitters notwithstanding,) all the more so again in strong, ‘bullet-proof’ locations.

WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

IT’S less than a year since the last detached family home in a great Beaumont Drive setting in Cork’s halo-ed and hallowed Blackrock hinterland came to market. 

Almost 300 new homes and a neighbourhood centre near Carrigaline in south Cork have been proposed in a recent planning application.

A CO KILDARE-based building firm is the buyer of a new homes site on Cork city’s Cleve Hill, Blackrock Road, paying c €3 million for six acres, with planning for 18 large homes.

Carrigaline, Cork €475,000

Blackrock Road, Cork city €525,000

Maryborough, Cork, €385,000

Builders are back in business in cities like Dublin and Cork in the bid to get sites for a house-hungry market — and now an outer suburban site comes to market in Cork to test appetites for something just a bit further out.

THREE of the five purchasers of the new detached houses at Woodbury have been first-time buyers and one is a certain gentleman, and family guy, rugby star Donnchadh O’Callaghan, who has made his own design tweaks and bespoke rear playroom extension.

City buyers cutting cloth to their financial means, stressing location over size Tommy Barker reports.

Size: Sq m 71 (770 sq ft)

IT could be Boreenmanna from heaven — a brand new, A-rated energy efficient detached home, within a walk of Cork City centre, for €350,000.