400-piece train set packed away, it’s full steam ahead to a new destination for the owners of No 12 Abbotswood, reports Tommy Barker.

Patrick and John Collison, the billionaire brothers from Limerick behind mobile payments firm Stripe, were still in their teens when they sold their auction website Auctomatic for €4.5m in 2008.

A new listing with Paul O’Shea and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry Fitz, No 13’s guided at €360,000.

An office investment, with a wealth-management company in occupation, is selling for €600,000.

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.

This suburban 1950s home has almost doubled its original size in a magical makeover says Tommy Barker.

Pitched as much at traders down as traders up — or just those keen on a strong location — is this bungalow called Inish, on Cork’s Well Road.

Colourful interior couture, fabulous formica, larders choc a bloc; seaworn shelving and a bright copper kettle, (well orange really), all add up to this week’s favourite things for Esther N McCarthy.

Douglas, Cork €550,000

Five available houses are guided at €550,000, writes Tommy Barker

BALLYPHEHANE, CORK €215,000

Ardgroom is an updated classic and elegant home in a perennially popular location, writes Tommy Barker

It’s been years since a Ballincurrig, Douglas family home came up for this sort of money — a sub €300,000 asking price is pinned to the four-bed semi-d called Cremore, in this quietest of cul de sac estates.

Liam Casey saw a potential gap in a rapidly developing market. Now the Cork-born entrepreneur employs 1,200 people across the globe, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A CORK solicitor has been fined €7,500 by the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal after being found guilty of professional misconduct over five separate charges.

The High Court has made orders winding up a group of companies involved in motor sales today.

HERE’S another one for the ‘dropped in price’ list: Coolgreen at Kilcoolishel, Glanmire, Cork.

NOT only can you make your own mark on this Hettyfield, detached Douglas home, you also get the chance to name it.

Tommy Barker highlights a double offering overlooking Cork’s vision of future.

TEN minutes from Midleton, but far from the madding crowd in the quiet village of Cloyne, is Beausang Construction’s latest scheme, Ashdale.

THERE’s posh and then there’s old decency: when it comes to the market, guess which wins out? Okay, the hint is Blackrock road/Ashton Park/Domestic Revival house.

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.

A FIVE-bed home for €275,000-plus isn’t to be sneezed at — and the uphill stroll home from the waterfront in Cobh is actually good for the lungs too.

FURNITURE retailers Casey’s of Cork have hit the expansionist road, with a Limerick store set to open in Spring 2005.

A FORMER showhouse, and in showroom condition, is the recently built three-storey, four-bed family home 1, Southwinds in Maryborough Woods, Douglas, Cork.