Tommy Barker says it’s sunny side up for this detached large corner site property with architect-tweaked sunroom in Mount Oval Village.

THE last Richmond, Blackrock Road house that featured in these pages ended its editorial exposure with the verdict “Likely to fly.”

WITH all roads set to lead to Cork Harbour’s Ringaskiddy, thanks to a Port of Cork downriver operations move, and a new, vastly improved road link, the timing of the launch of a major space facility for logistics, storage, and manufacturing is apt.

A CORK city centre complex of retail and offices, fronting two streets and with a combined income of €96,000 per annum is for sale at a price guide just north of €1m.

IT MIGHT sound dismissive, but the blunt fact is the least interesting part of Water’s Edge is the house itself.

Tommy Barker reports on a Cork city suburban three-bed that is a perfect match for first-time buyers at its sub €200,000 transfer fee.

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

From Gone with The Wind to Celine Dion, this beauty is an all- singing all-dancing showstopper, says Tommy Barker

Plum-set Kinsale Mall house overlooks harbour, marina and town with equal aplomb, says Tommy Barker

A Cork city suburban bar and off-licence, on a site of 0.3 of an acre, is up for sale in an evolving community, close to a new multi-million euro public library, a shopping centre with Super Valu, the progressive and highly-regarded Terence McSwiney Community College — and Apple’s European HQ, employing thousands.

WHAT could be billed as a quirky, high-octane investment at a small bite size lot has just come to market with the proposed sale of Adventure Park and Kartworld, just off the M8 at Cork’s Watergrasshill.

AN investment with an annual rental income just shy of €90,000, with most of it coming from a bookies as ground floor tenant, is up for sale, guiding at €1.25m.

There’s a bit of a lull right now in Cork’s residential house market, it appears, be it as a result of Central Bank lending, post-Budget/pre-Christmas hiatus, Brexit or even Irish political uncertainty.

A FORMER church-like Victorian school building converted to offices, next to what’s been used as a Tridentine Church in Cork City’s Shanakiel/Sunday’s Well is up for sale.

No 22, Augusta Drive is in the upmarket Maryborough Hill and is of excellent quality, says Tommy Barker.

A local has emerged as the €2.3m-plus buyer of a Killarney town-centre, modern, retail-based investment property called The Courtyard.

IT IS one of those homes that gets better with age: 15 Apsely Court is a c 20 year old bungalow in one of the very first O’Flynn Construction schemes, built in Killumney, Co Cork.