Three-bed semi, Gleann na Ri in Tower, Co Cork, has a large garden.

IT takes a bit of smart thinking to move houses in the present market and builders, Coleman Brothers, are not backwards in thinking forwards.

Rose Martin visits a trophy home with an irresistibly attractive price tag.

CROWDS of people turned up last weekend for the showhouse opening of the Lavallin development in Whitechurch, Co Cork.

TAKE a quick zip out the N22 and get more bang for your buck. A big, detached house at the 61 The Hermitage, Macroom, offers very good value at the guide price of €370,000.

WHILE it’s not Abingdon, the exclusive Dublin estate, Woodborough, in the little village of Tower, Co Cork is another gated scheme.

THE one innovation at Mariners Hall at the Mahon end of Cork’s Skehard Road is that the phone system works on a prepay bill system.

THE SITE’S the thing here: high up on the north-east of Cork city and with views for miles, this 1.2 acre property at Laherdane, White’s Cross, has great gardens.

RELAUNCHED on the market with Stephen Shine of Countrywide Homes is an immaculate, low-maintenance property in Co Cork at Mourneabbey, near Mallow, and while it’s 15 miles from Cork city, it has 2,500 square feet of space on offer at €485,000.

GO NORTH, young buyer, go north — and take the train, while you’re at it.

“CASHEL” is aptly-named. It’s a strong redoubt in the Cork countryside with high views over a number of townlands. Like the early ring-forts, the site is everything.

Rose Martin says Killeens is a case of Lios is more.

THIS house has to have one of the nicest settings in the Blarney area, and it should only get better.

WHEN these large, detached houses near Blarney, in Co Cork, were completed, all of the units were sold off the plans, so there was no need for marketing.

Rose Martin

MOVING up in the literal and social sense — that’s what’s on offer at 5, Shanakiel Court in Sunday’s Well where one house in a group of just six on Strawberry Hill has just come on the market.

VILLAGE life passes by the window of Cushla, which is in the heart of Tower, in Co Cork.

THE prospect of a ready made tree-house might swing a trading-up decision for young viewers, but the rest of this property at Coolflugh, Tower, Co Cork should tempt the mammies and daddies too.