NICHE and oh so very nice is this handy two-bed at 8 Kilbrody, at Cork’s Mount Oval Village.

SIGNIFICANTLY reduced from its original asking price, this house and site near Crosshaven is now on offer at €225,000.

YOU’D never know it was there without directions and that’s part of the attraction of Woodlands, Coolflugh, Tower.

CHOCOLATE Box and oh so Surrey Downs, Endsleigh is a film-set example of the arts and crafts style and was built between the wars by the Coveney family, builders and surveyors.

FARM land prices have hit bottom and are on the way up, says auctioneer, Maurice Cohalan of Cohalan Downing and Associates, following the successful sale of 24 acres at Garranes, Carrigtwohill last week.

PLANESPOTTERS take heed — this cottage in Cork’s Ballygarvan is just minutes from the “Taj Mahal” that is Cork airport.

HANDY for the hospitals on the western side of Cork city, no 61 Woodhaven, Bishopstown, is a three-bed townhouse on the market at €325,000 through Cohalan Downing and Associates.

THE last time I visited Rochestown Wood House was in June, 2003, and I described it then as having a lovely feel.

LAUREL WALK is the D4 of Bandon — or its Sunday’s Well, if a local comparison is more appropriate.

THERE’S a sense of timelessness on Cork’s Sunday’s Well — a feeling that you could as easily be in the 19th as the 21st century.

THIS Victorian townhouse sold in the height of the boom for a sum in the mid-70s, but it took over a year to bring to contract and then the buyer backed out.

SERENITY Bay, at East Ferry, Co Cork, is all about what’s inside, rather than outside.

YOU can’t beat the address — 41 Upper Kensington, Rochestown — for accessibility and Douglasability. And while this Cork house was built in the seventies, along with it comes a mature neighbourhood and a big green area with trees that’s perfect for children.

IT’S a bit of a beauty, this double-decker cottage in Crosshaven. And it’s not just the privacy, the huge site and the reach-over views of Drake’s Pool — it’s the potential.

THERE’S an old feminist saying — ‘we are the men we wanted to marry’ — and running with that analogy there were plenty of women with chequebooks at last Tuesday’s auction for 20 Connaught Place, Wellington Road.

A FAIRLY good turnout was recorded for the auction of a 40-acre farm at Ballybeg, New Two Pot House, near Mallow in Co Cork, last week. But the crowd didn’t matter when it came to the quality of bidders, of which there were three, according to Maurice Cohalan of Cohalan Downing and Associates.

Rose Martin on two derelict period properties with stacks of potential.

GREAT expectations — buy 16 Foxwood and you’re getting a house and a half. Well, in theory anyway, because this Rochestown property comes with full planning for an attic conversion and ground-floor extension.

TWO large fields are on offer close to New Two Pot House, Mallow in Co Cork.

UPMARKET, but understated, the Model Farm Road is always a good sell, thanks to third-level institutions and a trickle of good houses.

SHANAKIEL Court in Sunday’s Well is a bit hard to find if you don’t know the area.

No 14, Johnstown Park in Glounthaune, a cute commuter option on the Cork-Cobh line.

FOUR floors of living space within a five minute walk of the city — and a garden.

THE famous Ford boxes were the subject of much interest at the Des/Ire conference in Cork last week.

WELL-proportioned, bright and spacious, says the brochure, and you can’t disagree with it.

THEY’VE been given the nickname, The Toblerones, and these wedge-shaped apartments at Harbour Heights, Passage West in Cork are ready to go.

PRETTY, petite and with an address on Fairy Hill, this house at 1, The Orchard is going to appeal to the buyer’s inner child. And it even has some nice kiddy fittings.

A RARE resale in The Crescent hits the market this week with a guide of €525,000.

A GOOD address is always a sure fire investment and Villa Paulo, Coolgarten Park, is in the heart of the university quarter.

COACH HILL, that meandering descent from the heights of upper Rochestown, is a settled, suburban location which is much sought after.

Rose Martin admires the attention to detail in a tourist town penthouse.

CAPITAL appreciation has been good at Harty’s Quay, and apartments which cost in the three hundreds two years ago, are now making half a million or more.

PATRICK’S HILL in Cork must be a great place to live, being so close to the city centre.

TERRY Jennings, the Liscarroll, Co Cork-based trainer, has put his stud farm up for sale with John Hodnett of SWS Property Services and Maurice Cohalan of Cohalan Downing and Associates.

HOUSES may be getting bigger, but sites are getting smaller: some notable million euro examples in Cork city have no side entrance to their rear gardens at all.

THE PADDOCKS — where children may safely play and prices can gallop.

A SMASHING house in a smashing location is the brief summary of 10, Mossgrove, Ballincollig, by its selling agent, Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing and Associates.

IN a countryside of rich, rolling farmland, East Cork has more than its fair share of period residences.

THE last time a site was sold at Fountainstown, in April of this year, it made close to €550,000, at least €100,000 over its guide price of €450,000.

THIS discreet crescent at Douglas Close is an advertisement for grown-up living and the houses are perfect professional properties.

HIGH up on the hills overlooking the wide plains of Cork's river Lee at Carrigrohane is this decidedly architectural property at Templehill.

THE Irish cottage — you could write a book about it, and many have.