This quirky unit combines the benefits of a detached house and a modern apartment, it also has a patio and garden access, says Trish Dromey.

A house building site of 1.8 acres, with full planning for 15 new homes and with 12 of them started, is for sale on behalf of a receiver, guiding at €875,000

Further office sales and investments beckon on Cork city’s South Mall traditional offices heartland, hot on the heels of a building investment sale by Allsops last month, for €1.4million.

A total of €1.7 million was transacted in just 30 minutes this week at the latest Resolve auction.

Sq m: 93 (1,000 sq ft)

These seven modern apartments at 38 Mary Street are in a new-build complex around a courtyard with rental income of €65,000.

THERE’S been quite a price variation at the handful of the villa/cottage-like houses at Beechwood, on Cork’s Douglas Road, just east of St Finbarr’s Hospital.

Great location makes No 112 Elm Park ideal for those who want to update property

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country.

YEARS of trawling around old houses makes one immune to mould, damp and peeling wallpaper.

A PRISTINE, four-bedroomed family home in a cul de sac in Cork’s Wilton suburb is a new market arrival with a practical €285,000 asking price via agents Cahalane Skuse.

HETTYFIELD MEWS is a quiet find, with just eight terraced houses in two blocks ranged around a 100-year-old Scots Pine just off Cork’s Well Road.

YOU could feel like an air traffic controller at Ravakeel, Waterfall — the house is so high you’d imagine touching the undercarriage of a plane on its way to Cork Airport.

THERE’S already a bit of a hunt on at Cork’s Orion — a compact cottage called after a mighty stellar constellation, the Orion Nebula and the discernible shape (seen by telescope) of a hunter’s sword.

A THREE to four-bed house near Cork’s UCC at Wycherley Place promises to make financial sense for those who might even have just scraped a low D in pass maths, reckons estate agent Peter Skuse of Cahalane Skuse.

A REAL Cork sort of house, in a Cork setting — that’s Ard Naoimh Joseph, on the city’s Redemption Road.

EASTER’S here, and next come thoughts of summer..and summer homes. “It’s a sure sign the summer is on the way, when the coastal area in west Cork starts to get ready for the season, and we’ve already seen stirrings in the past week,” says auctioneer, Peter Skuse, of Cahalane Skuse.

FROM flat irons to flats — estate agent Peter Skuse throws a shape on stories as well as properties.

THIS long cottage at 8 Huggardsland, Glasheen Road, Cork, is a country cottage in the city.

BUYERS in the property market may be thin on the ground but this slim property has attracted a lot of interest.

SOME houses look their size, and shout their wares. Others are more subtle, and this Waterfall, Co Cork home fits that low-key description.

A HIGH specification characterises the four houses in the Arduinne scheme.

SALES at the Elderwood scheme on Cork city’s prime Boreenmanna Road move into the final phase this month, just as a new bus service places a bus stop right outside its door.

IT’S the Killiney of Cork, says Peter Skuse of Cork’s Blackrock suburb, and its Castle Road water-view houses.

NO matter what the state of the market, there are always takers for a good deal, and that’s what’s on offer in the north Cork village of Boherbue where Cahalane Skuse are selling a four-bedroom detached property for €315,000.

EAGLE Valley is always a good buy because of its location close to Cork University Hospital and the South Ring Road.

The €315,000 price tag on 122 Elm Park makes it an ideal starter home.

WELL, there’s one at least comes along each spring with impeccable timing. This time no 30 Daffodil Fields is the first four-bed detached to burst onto the selling season, in tune with nature’s equivalent, hosts of golden daffodils.

IF you were vague about Haig Gardens, here’s a chance to remedy the situation. Houses in this enclave, close to Cork city centre, rarely come up for sale.

Set on the edge of Waterfall village, it is two miles to the Rise in Bishopstown, and another few hundred yards to the city’s city ring road network.

THE uplift in property values in Ballincollig west of Cork city continues, thanks to the new bypass, shortage of new stock in Bishopstown and the new town centre.

WITH suburban semis shooting up in price, sometimes the best value can be had by travelling that extra couple of miles.

A TOWNHOUSE in Cork’s Eagle Valley is for sale, with the vendor departing after a few years of habitation.

THE babies, and children, are back with a bang in regentrified Wellington Road and St Luke’s Cross in Cork. The vendors of 6 York Terrace have been 17 years in situ, and remark on the changes of the last few years.

THERE’S a new building boom by Broadale, on Cork’s Maryborough Hill - but nothing yet to buy for months in the O’Brien and O’Flynn residential development.

Tommy Barker reports on a prime property in city’s western suburbs.

A STROLL up Blarney Street will bring you to No 334 on one of Cork’s old addresses.

A THIRD of an acre site in Bishopstown, and a four-bedroomed detached property just a minute from the South Link - rare indeed.

LIKE the Britvic drink, 55 Seven Oaks in Frankfield gives a little bit extra.

TWO beds or three? Different sized house options are on the go at a Cork development where a €70,000 price differential separates a compact two-bed or a larger three-bed mews-style accommodation.

VIEWS are the thing here at 40 Fernwood Crescent, Lehenaghmore, Cork city, is spread out as far as the eye can see and the twinkling nights are an ever-changing backdrop.

VERY discreet and tucked away off the Model Farm Road, Highfield Lawn is not just the entrance driveway to the million-euro enclave, Court Cairn, but a desirable residential location in its own right.

THERE are some consolations for not playing an All Ireland hurling final tomorrow — such as getting the nod on the prestigious sale of a €1 million-plus property.

THE SPIRES in Innishannon in Cork is a spot much in demand by the trading-up set. Close to Cork city, and in a strictly controlled planning area along the river Bandon, houses here sell quickly.