WHAT does an estate agent have to do to get a good property listing in these days of restricted volumes of quality trading-up homes?

RATHCOURSEY, EAST CORK €295,000

WELCOME to Kilva, the family home that grew and grew.

IT’S no surprise in a week when the EU and IMF take over the country without firing a shot, that farm bidders have been quiet.

THERE was a meitheal of sorts for the sale of a farm in west Cork at Lassanaroe, Skibbereen, which was tied up last week by neighbours acting in concert.

IT’S in a lot of bits and pieces, but in a way, that’s going to be the strong selling point of this farm at Lassanroe, Skibbereen, Co Cork.

THERE are areas in the country where property prices are head and shoulders above average — even in a downturn.

Tommy Barker visits the former home of a famous teacher in west Cork.

BACK in Ballydehob, CCM’s Jim O’Brien is selling a 38-acre non-residential farm in a scenic location.

FINISHED only in the last few months, a coastal bungalow built by an architect has been designed to hide its relative bulk under not one, two but three stepped sections, with a few bedrooms tucked away out the back as well for good measure.

This three-bedroomed house at Letter, Skibbereen, forms part of the sale of a 64-acre farm divided by public road.

THE Public Accounts Committee will be asked to investigate the knock-down sale of a prison kitchen to a private company following the prison’s closure.

THERE’S a certain clique that dubs Ardfield and Rathbarry in west Cork as Clonakilty Four, mainly because of the high house prices in the pretty seaside area within an hour’s commute of Cork city.

TIMES change — 30 years ago, this beach-side field was the site for six small wooden chalets, frequented by visiting Dutch and Germans booking horse-drawn caravan holidays around West Cork.

THE ATLANTIC comes crashing almost to the door, and a stream feeds from a lake to the ocean. There's dunes to hand, surfing for the brave, forest walks, headlands bookended by a lighthouse: welcome to Long Strand.