From detailed and delicate to loose and relaxed, braids are making a comeback. And, Katie Wright reveals, they’re easier to master than you might think.

It’s a house and a half, literally, within the town boundary of north Cork’s Kanturk.

Tommy Barker says as city prices soar, theres’ value left in easily commutable rural locations.

A call-up for nations cup duty with MHS Going Global means Greg Broderick will miss the chance to repeat his gold medal performance at next week’s World Breeding Championships at Lanaken, Belgium, with Super Chilled and Alberta Mist.

Size: 135 sq m (1,450sq ft)

Sq m: 255 (2,750 sq ft)

MODEL FARM ROAD, CORK €195,000

Just coming up on 10 years old, in great shape and superbly finished is this Allihies 2,800 sq ft home — painted white, and that’s really atypical of the West Cork village and its colourful hinterland.

A 180-year-old terraced two-bed period home is really looking its best, says Tommy Barker

A KINSALE island linked to property developer Gerry Gannon is to be sold by tender next month, likely to make a quarter of the sum it last sold for in the mid-2000s.

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

Property editor Tommy Barker rounds up some of Munster’s, and the country’s biggest house movers in 2010.

MAKE us an offer — so say the builders and developers of Pairc na gCrann, as they price slash their last, five remaining houses in the 60-plus, Glanworth, Co Cork development.

“THE developer didn’t sit on his hands, here,” says the selling agent of the last four houses in the Glanworth village’s Pairc na gCrann — he’s gone large, for less.

DUTCH-owned ACC Bank is continuing its disposal of Irish bank branches in 2010, it has just confirmed at year’s end.

IF you can’t sell your house, or are just stuck for cash in any case, how about selling some of the toys of the Celtic Tiger era?

THERE’S a flavour of continental Europe about 22, Glincool Gardens in Cork’s Ballincollig suburbs.

ONE of those rare events in Cork city, a house auction, is due to take place next month for a bungalow on a large site at Uam Var Drive, Curraheen, Cork.

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.

LAST time around, in the mid-2000s, this was a swift property seller for its auctioneer, despite an island setting.

LIKE most properties these days the sales pitch is the price drop. And so it is with Brookhaven, a three-storey, one-off just outside Killumney in Co Cork.

BUYERS can recognise value when they see it — and they clearly saw it at Glanworth this month. Three four/five bed detached houses here have been snapped up at just e250,000 a pop, in the few weeks since they appeared in these pages.

FIRST with the news, and first with the mews: the selling agent of 13, Sheraton Court reckons this 1980s-built townhouse will pay its way as an investment.

SO, just how brave are you?

THERE’S a touch of the Ottoman Empire or the eastern exotic about the front of this Glasheen Road, suburban Cork house, thanks to something as simple as the ground floor window and door treatment.

THERE’S immediate development and speculative interest in the sale of fine old Castlemahon, a period home on Cork’s Castle Road near the emblematic Blackrock Castle.

THERE’S immediate development and speculative interest in the sale of fine old Castlemahon, a period home on Cork’s Castle Road near the emblematic Blackrock Castle.

THE possible buying net is widely cast at the house The Anchorage on Cork’s Church Road - across the road from the Rockies hurling club.

SITES or houses? The alternatives are on offer in Abbottswood in Cork’s Rochestown suburb, where two very compact house sites are being chased towards the €300,000 mark apiece with Timothy Sullivan & Associates auctioneers.