THE passing of time — a half-century or so — has done no disservice to Cabo de Vela, a Douglas semi with a lot in its favour.

WHICH do you want, house or site? A four-bed semi in leafy Limetrees Road in Cork’s Maryborough, carries a €580,000 asking price, is likely to be extended but, the selling agent has a site around the corner for roughly the same money as a re-done 25 Limetrees Road might cost.

AND, they’re off, with yet another house joining the sale race at the Paddocks in Cork.

“PRISTINE condition” is the sales pitch, and the attraction, at a well-located, semi-detached house in Glanmire’s Marwood development, a few miles from Cork city.

A HOLIDAY home or investment property is up for sale in a niche scheme of houses near Fossa, Killarney, in Co Kerry.

THEY waited for the finishing touches before they began the sales push on Camden Wharf - and the finish, even on the exterior, is what will impress the most.

ALWAYS in demand and always a good seller, the Firgrove/Central Avenue houses are generally regarded as fine, solid houses.

THE Dunne family, of Dunnes Stores fame, know a good pitch when they see it — and that’s way they put their eye on St Bronach’s corner site many moons ago.

IN A solid selling neighbourhood, the Maryborough estate is one of those mature and quiet enclaves that three-bed semi dwellers aspire to owning.

WITH prices in Bishopstown kick-starting the spring market, two detached properties on the western side of this Cork city suburb should set a benchmark for future sales.

WITH Blackrock Castle as a neighbour, and some of Cork's finer individual period homes all in a row, Castle Road in Cork is a special and covetable address.