Elden has smartly landscaped, walled-in back gardens, paved terrace/patio, and much more, says Tommy Barker.

APARTHOTEL use is mooted for a Cork bar and entertainment complex, just put up for sale and with almost 200 years of trading history in the heart of the city centre.

It seems like it’s missing a few vowels, but this home has just about everything else, writes Tommy Barker.

Sales at the Elden development in Cork’s Maryborough Hill have been chugging along nicely for developers O’Flynn Construction in the past year or two, across the board, from houses to apartments, with one of the latter, a penthouse, making €630,000 in 2014.

IT’S eight years now since the scheme of contemporary-styled houses at Cork’s Elden got launched — and they still look crisp and modern.

There are quality woods inside, and outside, at Blackberry Cottage, in the woodland scheme of one-off homes called Brookwood. 

Tommy Barker finds a good value home outside Douglas’ ‘halo’ effect.

THE GARDENS are just coming into their own at Kingscourt, a detached bungalow amid the blossoms, on a fabulous acre along Cork’s Maryborough Hill, beyond Douglas.

More than half a billion euro was spent on hotel acquisitions in the first quarter of the year in the largest quarterly spree ever seen.

Tony Clayton-Lea explores the most romantic destinations to wine and dine your beloved and (re)ignite the passions.

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

The 5,000 sq ft, mint-order, Orchard House in the grounds of Cork’s Maryborough House Hotel has barely been lived in since it was last sold-and-bought, in 2010. The price is €1.55m for the five/six-bed three-storey home done to a high build and finish standard, and to a Victorian-style template, says Tommy Barker

Money is tight , but market upper-end sales are going through. Tommy Barker reports

One of Cork’s most prestigious schools has been forced to relocate from the city centre to an industrial estate just days before the new term.

A Cork harbour Georgian period home has great views that haven’t changed much in the past 150 years, Tommy Barker reports

CORK is losing out to other European cities on foreign direct investment because Government policy is restricting the areas where international companies can choose to locate.

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

AN overjoyed Batt O’Keeffe walked his daughter Hilda down the aisle over the weekend as she married her fiance, Damien Smyth, in a church ceremony in Ballincollig, Co Cork.

CORK CITY’S suspended players will turn up at training this morning despite a two-week club ban imposed on them for last week’s show of opposition against Tom Coughlan’s ownership of the League of Ireland outfit.

TOM COUGHLAN says that the “primary reason” for his stated intention to step down as Chairman of Cork City is to help ensure a viable future for the club.

JOE JORDAN of Blarney makes his senior debut as Cork take on All-Ireland champions Kilkenny in the Allianz NHL at Nowlan Park in Denis Walsh’s first match in charge on Sunday.

GER CUNNINGHAM is an early favourite to replace Gerald McCarthy as Cork hurling manager.

Tommy Barker admires the renovation job by Glenora’s architect-owner.

Tommy Barker says location is the reason why you can call a newly-built home of 3,800 sq ft and with a €1.6 million-plus price guide, modest.

Tommy Barker dips a toe into the luxury spa at Maryborough House.

THE Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of Green Fáilte Awards 2006 to the hospitality sector yesterday.

MAJOR planning applications for Cork’s premium residential addresses have been lodged within the last few weeks.

REMEMBER the Celtic Tiger? It hasn’t totally gone away, you know.

GORTALOUGH, which exclusively hit these pages with a record-seeking €2.5 million splash last weekend, has features to fill pages of newsprint and magazines... so here’s a taste and context.