No 12 The Terrace may be modest but it is in perfect walk-in condition, says Tommy Barker.

THERE’S a robust build quality - and both house and site-purchase options – at Clogheen, a detached and quite sizeable five-bed family home, in the very heart of Douglas’s Hettyfield.

Tommy Barker takes a leisurely wander around a smart one-off family home with a unique intergenerational link

Cork city’s Clancy’s bar is set to rise again, in time for its 195th birthday, part of a c€3.5/€4m total investment by its new consortium of owners.

The latest moves in the world of business.

Tommy Barker hears this three-bed 1,140 sq ft, after a single story add-on, has a full back wall of glass in the modern kitchen/diner

One of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars, the Rendezvous, has changed hands, for close to €1.5 million.

Cork city centre is at the other, bottom end of the street — but in some ways, the knock-out private home and eyrie that is No 160 Blarney Street might as well be out in the pure countryside, writes Tommy Barker.

Ardnagrena is a large but graceful gem which has been well maintained and sensitively updated, writes Tommy Barker.

A stunning housing scheme with sophistication and quality family homes on Model Farm Road, has it all, reports Catherine Shanahan.

WILL one of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars have a rendezvous tryst with development fates?

Tommy Barker says new, upmarket schemes west and east of Cork city will spur resales – and gossip.

This Blarney Street property has a patio, a garden and is close to city centre.

The owners have ensured No 175 Blarney St is no traditional terrace house, writes Trish Dromey.

24 Sundrive Park is fresh to market with agent Kevin Barry of Barry Auctioneers.

Tommy Barker looks at a four-bed family home that went on the market in a popular Cork suburb this week.

Trish Dromey says No 1 is beautifully gift-wrapped and ready to go.

Little and large co-exist at the top of the Rosebank estate, just off Cork’s Douglas Road. 

Tommy Barker discovers a four-bed home that comes with a second three-bed guest bungalow and stables.

The address may sound Alpine, but the shortest of downhill walks brings you from Tirol Avenue, on suburban Cork’s Maryborough Hill, to the flat of Douglas village.

SET on a hidden site, just before the start of Cork’s Blackrock Road, is Applewood — a dormer with a difference.

KENMARE, CO KERRY €475,000

This very attractive three-bed house, in good condition, in a good area could tick a lot of boxes for first time buyers or even trader-uppers. Rose Martin reports

Taking into consideration the money that will need to be spent here, this five-bed Lissadell, on Gardiner’s Hill is on the upper level for a starter home, but then, it does offer period charm, lots of space and a location that’s second to none.

A PASSING glance and you’d assume that Cnoc Mhuire is a brand new build, but the Well Road house has been standing for quite a while.

BUILT only two years ago, No 6 The Oaks is a big detached house ready, as they say, to walk into... but the real selling point is that you can walk into it all the way from the heart of Cork city, just a mile away.

EARLIER this year finding a buyer for Leugh Lodge would have been child’s play: all you had to do was look to the Amgen plant, and its middle and upwardly mobile managers.

TWEAKING the interior fittings just that little bit lifts this house above the standard, one-off bungalow level.