Silence is goal-den says Tommy Barker

Menloe House is a noble historic home in one of Cork’s most affluent locations, writes Tommy Barker.

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.

An unidentified, out-of-Cork purchaser has emerged as the €2million-plus buyer of a six-acre residential building site with planning for 18 luxury homes, on the city end of Cork’s Blackrock Road.

Tommy Barker revisits ‘Arundel’ 10 years since it was last on the market and witnesses an utter transformation.

Blackrock, Cork €450,000

DOUGLAS, CORK

WITH its great location the small home St John’s on Barrington’s Avenue off Cork’s Blackrock Road could make a good starter home for a young buyer or couple who’d then have the option of renting it out later on if they wanted to trade up.

READY to go with planning permission to raise the roof, this cottage at Barrington’s Avenue, Blackrock, comes with great potential.

THERE’S only one folly in the purchase of no 17 Lisnalee, and that’s the old castle folly seen just beyond the back garden wall of this Blackrock, Cork home.

SOME houses have hidden depths: Arundel goes the opposite route, it has splendid shallows.

THERE’LL be fun and games at Atlanta - but not the USA’s Georgia state capital, host city of a previous Olympic Games.

THE citizenship referendum is a nauseating proposition because I believe if we pass it we could be rendering stateless children born of non-nationals in Ireland as their parents’ country or countries of origin may also not accept them as citizens.

GOB-SMACKINGLY large mortgages they might be to those with 15 or so years of payments under their belt, but houses in the €400,000-plus bracket are the norm for trading-up today.

RIGHT address and a good price too — this two-bed cottage in Barrington’s Avenue in Cork’s Blackrock is clear, first-time buyer stuff.