With its distant views and glorious back garden, No 37 is ‘a keeper’, as Tommy Barker discovers

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

COMING under swift viewings and early offers too is No 26, also called Koran, on Highfield Lawn off the Model Farm Road in Cork city.

IT’S only been on the market less than two weeks and already No 21 Bromley Park, at Donnybrook, Douglas is under offer — but not quite close enough to the guide price of €220,000.

HOPEFULLY it isn’t ominous – but the dining room lightshade hanging over the table at yacht designer Rob Doyle’s design-savvy home is a design called Titanic. On the plus side, the sleek, long light has been in place for quite a few years, unlike that fateful ship.

TWO prime pieces of tillage ground a mile apart at Leamlara and Lisgoold hit the east Cork land market this week as part of an executor’s sale, through Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith.

NUMBER 16 Glendale Road in Glasheen is a good solid family home, says John Barry of Keane Mahony Smith, and it has a full south facing back garden.

LOCAL gossip along the Blackrock Road in Cork would have you believe that a couple of new and renovated houses, currently in their finishing stages, are costing their owners €5 million or even €6m to complete.

No 73 St Kevin’s Square, Cork, is renovated and extended and in great condition, for an appealing €215,000 price.

A BANK selling – at auction. An event so close to a miracle you could almost hear the angels sing.

IT’S rare to find a site as large as that at number two, Bishopscourt Avenue. This detached corner house has a large back garden, but it also includes a sweep of extra ground on its right-hand side, maybe enough to build another house.

UNLESS properties are in a bullet-proof setting, price slashing is the only way to get rid of built and unsold stock.

ONE of those elegant Victorians on the north side of Cork city, no 6 Árd na Gréine, St Luke’s, is a three-storey end of row property with some TLC required.

UP for auction at the end of the month is this tiny cottage at Shrone, Glengarriff. Co Cork.

BUILDING sites are hard to get and, perversely, the bigger you buy, the cheaper they are to acquire.

NUMBER 1, Sunview Terrace, on the South Douglas Road, Cork is a three bedroom end of terrace house which has not only been renovated, but has a stylish, two storey extension added to the rear.

RATIONAL windows and a subtly coloured facade is just one attractive aspect of this house at Rosehill, Ballinacurra, in Midleton, Co Cork.

A PLACE on the waterfront beckons in the Lee Valley near Farran for Cork home buyers.

RATHPEACON is part of Cork’s green belt zone and has the best of both worlds — fast access to town on the North Ring Road, but situated in an area with plenty of fresh air and low-density housing.

WITH many Office of Public Works staff due to up sticks to Kanturk, Co Cork, in the near future if the Minister of Finance’s plans are carried through, demand for property in the region should increase exponentially.

JUST hitting the €250,000 mark is a three bedroomed semi in Cork with a good, Douglas location.

SKIRMISHES during the 1601 Battle of Kinsale took place in and around the wooded hills of Brownsmills, a literal backwater a mile outside the harbour tourist town.