Strong interest can be expected in this recently beautified Bishopstown family home, says Tommy Barker.

It can be hard to keep in step with the neighbours, can’t it?

WE’VE been here, to this very house, before. And, on this ‘House of the Week’ page also.

Ardnagrena is a large but graceful gem which has been well maintained and sensitively updated, writes Tommy Barker.

There’s a dearth of house sites left in Cork’s affluent suburbs. It’s conquer and divide, says Tommy Barker.

A number of new office occupiers and sale deals are coming to an end-of-year close in the heart of Cork city, at Lapps Quay, at City Quarter, and at the Elysian, where a new walk-in medical clinic is set to open next month and where a new restaurant letting is agreed. Plus there’s 12,000 sq ft of offices at the Elysian under active negotiation via Lisney.

Dunsland House’s 50 acres can be bought in four lots, including 14 with main house, says Tommy Barker.

Job done. Having put a roof over the heads of a family with seven children, this 1991-built 3,000 sq ft home called Stonewalls at Glinny near Riverstick and within a short drive of Kinsale, is up for sale, and ready to do service all over again.

A SITE tucked away off Cork’s main Blackrock Road with full planning for a five-bed detached two-storey home is being guided at €410,000 by estate agents Casey & Kingston.

The tracks of the West Cork Railway might have been pulled up, and the land given back to farmers, but there’s memories galore still of the glory days of rail and routes west of Cork city, past viaducts, through tunnels, and over bridges.

THERE’s a zoning game of patience to be played out on a former Cork suburban pitch and putt course, with the arrival of a prime land parcel, detached house and old stone outbuildings on the South Douglas Road.

The place next door quite famously fetched €27.5m, at an electric auction process, back in 2006.

Brambles beauty should fly out the door in Heron’s Wood. Trish Dromey hears this well-maintained three-bed could well make a happy New Year purchase for one young couple in Carrigaline.

Apartments are well on the way back price-wise in Cork, with post-slump demand and values driven by location, most of all.

You could almost hold the school sports for the adjacent St Anthony’s boys’ NS in the back garden of 11 Beechwood Park: it’s that long. 

WHOEVER gets to buy 19 Sunday’s Well Road will have to take a view on it — once they get the view, they’ll get the urge, and the big picture.

The relocation of fashion retailer Cari’s Closet from Carey’s Lane to Patrick Street, Cork, brings 12, Carey’s Lane, to the letting market.

Affordable for Wilton is this one bed apartment at 38 The Maples, Wentworth Gardens, guiding at €135,000.

Tommy Barker on a recently upgraded house of two styles close to all the facilities of Cork’s urban life.

Tommy Barker on a Douglas home with three-floors of accommodation.

Tommy Barker reports on a tidy property which will attract wide interest.

Green fields are just over the back/side wall of 168 Curragh Woods in Cork’s Frankfield suburb: it’s right at the current development boundary, on these suburban hills south of the city, stretching up towards Cork’s Airport Hill by Ballycurreen.

On a great corner site in Cork’s Browningstown matrix of parks, this three-bed semi-d called Corbally is “your blank canvas, it’s waiting for someone to come in and make something special of it.”

Back from the US, and back into the bar-and-restaurant business on their home turf — it’s the Irish version of the American dream for John and Lisa Cronin.

No 64, Castle Meadows, off the Skehard Road, measures 1,750 sq ft after a two-storey add-on and is priced at €265,000, says Tommy Barker.

Some home hunters’ days of roaming the range will be up at Dunroamin House, in Cork’s Kilnaglory, near Ballincollig.

Tommy Barker on reasons you’ll be glad of this top floor two-bed pad.

Extended five-bed has small rear garden, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker says No 14 Frankfield Villas has three bedrooms, views of hills and sports fields, and scope at the rear for play or gardening.

The Overdraught has been cleared — or, at least, the bar/restaurant of that name is set to return to business.

There’s a crisp, modern angular look to the apartments built at Elderwood, on Cork’s Boreenmanna Road, and now a one-bed here, No 18, with a very handy patio/balcony, has come to market.

Sq m 67 (720 sq ft)

Sq m: 94 (1,000 sq ft)

A recovery in trade in one of Cork’s city centre’s under-performing streets — Academy Street — is heralded with the opening this weekend of a new restaurant, CoqBull, which replaces hospitality supremo Jay Bourke’s long-established Cafe Bar Deli.