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

GO down to the end of the long garden at 2, Fernwood, Douglas Road, and you’re into a different world. Shady trees, an old stone wall and fields running on to the horizon — that’s all you’ll see.

THE tried and tested three-bed semi is the barometer of the real property market - and going on demand the evidence is of a still healthy market.