DOUGLAS, CORK €217,000

THE million euro mark has returned to its previous role as the tipping point for all property and luxury, top-end property.

THIS is the second time around for Killegney, a large, detached house in a sunny corner of Strawberry Hill in Cork city.

DOWN in its asking price, and with offers in lower than what’s currently being quoted, No 2 Bishopscourt Avenue in Cork city’s Bishopstown is an ideal family home ready to be sold, says agent John Barry of Keane Mahony Smith.

THE outside might look like a conventional, albeit upmarket dormer bungalow — but the delight is in the detail. Built for his own ends by craftsman joiner John Desmond, Ballady Lodge, on its acre site, near Belgooly, in Co Cork, is a place where you can see the woods, and the trees.

ANOTHER budget run-up, another slowdown in second-hand house sales — thanks to the annual political muddying of the waters with regard to stamp duty on sales.

THE arts festival might now have wrapped up in Kinsale, but there’s still some viewing pleasures to savour – such as the harbour views from Rossnakilly.

SAID by its joint selling agents to be in showhouse condition, a dormer bungalow home for sale at Brookdale, in Riverstick, off the Cork to Kinsale road, really is a shoe-in or walk-in job.

THEY built them big in Bishopstown.

NO waiting, and done up ready to move into, that’s the big attraction at 1 Elm Road in Cork’s Fota Rock.

PHASE Two of the Páirc na gCrann scheme in Glanworth, Co Cork, is being launched this weekend. The showhouse for the scheme is open today and tomorrow from 2pm to 5pm.

THE tall, slender detached house, 8 Pembroke Heights on the Cork side of Passage West, carries a €340,000 price guide with James Crowley of Keane Mahony Smith.

A DETACHED house for €340,000 anyone?

NO 2 The Avenue in Rockfield is up close and personal — it is just one of four houses in the estate actually on Church Road in Cork’s Blackrock suburb.

APPEARANCES deceive, at least on the size front, at 2, Laurelville on Cork’s old suburban Ballinlough road.

IT’S almost refreshing to see that Kinsale can still throw up expensive properties, despite the scaling down of prices in the last while.

WHY €300,000 for a tiny cottage? Because for once the brochure-speak is right - this is a once-off opportunity to buy beautiful views of coastal West Cork and a land bank of eight acres where planning is utterly restricted.

THE chance to bed down in some style alongside Galway’s famous oyster beds, and just in time for the September Oyster Festival in nearby Clarinbridge, has come up with the sale of Claddagh Cottage.

THE transformation of the former Our Lady’s Hospital grounds in Cork continues, with the conversion of old courtyard buildings into an upmarket mews scheme of 14 units.