THREE retail-based Cork city investments, worth a combined €3 million-plus and each promising a yield of c.8.25% come to the open market this week with Cushman & Wakefield, pitched at private investors, and to those in search of pension income.

It’s the one and only — no, not an Olympic winner, but the only four-bed home currently on offer in Cork’s Frankfield suburb, above Douglas. 

Tommy Barker says this three-storey five-bedroomed family home on Cork city’s Blarney Street offers excellent convenience to the city centre.

There’s a rising tide of investment and development going in around Cork harbour, and hoping to capitalise on that are the vendors of a site called Belmont Huts, back for sale with a fresh grant of planning, and at multiples of its previous sale price just over two years ago.

Four-bed semis are in very short supply in Ballincollig and many which do come on the market, are more expensive than this one at 138 An Caislean, guiding at €299,950.

Built to accommodate a large family back in 2001, this detached six-bed house has done its duty, and with a nest emptying at a rate, it’s now being offered for sale by its down-sizing owners.

Space and good value combine at 24 Fernway, in Classes Lake, at Ovens/Ballincollig west of Cork, where €180,000 will buy a four-bed duplex apartment with a 24’ long outside veranda.

Tommy Barker finds two similar properties with similar prices to tempt both investors and owner-occupiers.

Newly listed with agents Global Properties is Haven Lodge, one of the largest family homes around in the greater Ballinhassig area, a 15-minute spin west of Cork city and airport.

It’s bucket and spade time again as summer beckons — and estate agent Barry Nagle of Global Properties has a coastal Co Cork home up for grabs, ideal for the largest of families.

This one-bedroomed unit has generous living accommodation and is easy on the eye, fitted out with oak-flooring and tasty touches.

A price guide at €79,000 might mean some love in the air at this North Cork home - appropriately in a scheme called The Pastures, in Love Lane, Charleville.

Following on the sale of a city centre bar in Cork, close to the proposed new convention centre at South Gate Bridge, estate agent Con Nagle of Global Properties has a bar in Cork county offered next on his books, with a second similar due to follow in the coming weeks.

Muskerry Estate “is still the original and still the best-located estate in the now thriving town of Ballincollig,” says Con Nagle of Global Properties, who is busy doing viewings on two three-bed semis here.

Up on a hill above the town, No 7 Admiral’s Walk offers a good vantage point for watching yachts sail in and out of Kinsale Harbour.

Might it be second time lucky for estate agency firm Global Properties in East Cork - gratis of the Irish Examiner? Sale hopes are high in the case of the detached bungalow at the Welsh-sounding spot of Llennoco, with sea views at Garryvoe Lower.

Size: 122 sq m (1,300sq ft)

Size: 310 sq m (3,200 sq ft)

Sq m: 92 (980 sq ft)

Size: 110 (1,200 sq ft)

Sq m: 122 (1,310 sq ft)

Sq m: 142 (1,560 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 200 (2,150 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 100 (1,100sq ft)

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Tommy Barker reports on a detached house sale at Waterfall, Cork

CLOGHROE, CORK €285,000

BANK of Ireland’s director of business banking in Ireland and Britain has said he is “fed up to the back teeth” of people saying they can’t get loans from the bank.

IS it sexist now to describe Ballintubber Lodge as ‘a Gentleman’s Residence?’ Let an enterprising woman come to the fore, then, and change the auctioneer’s historically redolent description of this country home, newly up for sale.

FULL southerly views out over the back garden to green, green fields ground this 1,800 sq ft family home to its rural roots – but it is still only a couple of miles from Douglas, and four miles from Cork city centre.

SEEKING to trade up locally from their “showhouse standard” three-bed semi with about 1,000 sq ft or space are the owners of 12 Elm Road, Fota Rock, in east Cork’s Carrigtwohill commuter setting.

ANYONE for the last showhouse now? The final piece of a 99-house jigsaw at The Orchards, Kinsale, Co Cork, has just launched this week at a knockdown €315,000.

A GARDEN done by an expert who had worked closely with green design guru Diarmuid Gavin of TV makeover fame, is an unexpected bonus at the back of 3 Melbourn Close.

DO the numbers on 17 Grangevale – they stack up.

LEFT nicely high, and relatively dry, in last weekend’s Cork flooding devastation was this Lee Valley home, at Castleinch – though it does have a grandstand view of the source of all of the recent problems.

MAYBE it is the new commuter train services, but property sales in east Cork’s Carrigtwohill are tipping away quite nicely, says Barry Nagle of Global Properties.

WORTH ‘more dead than alive’ may sum up the Rochestown Road family home of a man in the building trades profession.

A SHIFT in agent and a reduced selling price makes this Crookstown, Co Cork bungalow one for review.