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

Gardiner’s Hill home is all done up on the inside writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker says this split level house is back on recovering market.

You don’t have to go backwards now to go forwards with the work needed on St Joseph’s, a detached four-bed home in Cork’s Carrigeen Park, off the city end of the Ballinlough Road.

Tommy Barker visits a suburban Cork city semi-d that’s had a thorough makeover both inside and out.

Tommy Barker finds a superbly finished four bedroomed family home high up on Cork’s Airport Hill.

Tommy Barker reports on a recent arrival in an old Cork city suburb.

There’s a whole lot more house now at 42 Calderwood than when first built back in the 1970s.

Miramar in Passage West has much to please a trade up buyer — well designed, well finished, modern living space and mature gardens as well as a separate small house for granny.

There’s always a cachet to the Blackrock Road address of Menloe Gardens — and, it’s been a few years since a house came up for sale here.

Cork city’s St Luke’s Cross area is getting back to gentrification: visiting many of the homes here, on fine sunny days, you appreciate its enduring appeal.

A walk-in job with very good interiors, this Cork suburban semi is likely to top €425,000, writes Tommy Barker.

THERE’S going to be serious viewing interest in the Edwardian semi-d called Lynton, going by the early signs — phonecalls from the moment a sale board went up, as well as the impact of a very similar house sale a few doors away earlier this year.

DOUGLAS, CORK €395,000

ALREADY extended, but also dated and needing upgrades, is the four-bed semi-d, number 27, Browningstown Park East.

A HIGH, old stone wall as the back garden boundary roots this affordable, four-bedroomed, detached, Glanmire house to its setting.

THIS isn’t the house that sold on this site almost three years ago — it is bigger, better, and brand new.

THERE’S gold in some gardens, and some grassy plots have already led to bumper harvests. Side gardens in the suburbs continue to turn to gold for some fortunate occupants, who might only have originally paid a few hundred pounds extra for the larger plots on which their homes stand.

DIRECT access to the sea via a boat slip being provided as part of a niche upmarket house scheme gives Pebble Beach a selling edge.

PUTTING money into property has been a no-brainer for the past five or 10 years — but the equally smart people also put their money into plants.

THE last comparable sale made €520,000, also for a do-er upper, but on the basis that you have to start an asking price somewhere, and given that the market is continuing to drag through prime season selling time, a Rosebank Douglas, three semi-d has a lower, €475,000 guide.

BUILT about a quarter century ago, as an early timber framed house by (the then-pioneering) Noel Parkes, Windsor Meadows is a house in superb condition inside and out, on a prized and private 0.6 acre site just west of Cork city in Waterfall.

A FULL-ON southerly aspect to the front and a back garden which isn’t overlooked are some of the attributes of 5 Rosebank, a Douglas semi-d, off the main road by the swimming pool entrance to the estate.

THIS house was built to accommodate a future extension, and, as a result, has the largest side garden in the development.

INVESTORS with a nest egg can get more than a half a dozen 'eggs' in the basket in the case of 99 Eagle Valley in Cork's Wilton suburbs.