Tommy Barker admires a reasonably-priced home in the scheme just across the Douglas River from Rochestown.

Tommy Barker eyes up a home in the visionary Jacob’s Island development which he says is maturing nicely.

Two waterfront apartment blocks in Cork’s suburban Rochestown, totalling 50 units, are up for sale in one lot, with a guide price of €6.75 million, or an average of €135,000 each. They come to market at time of proven and competitive demand for multi-let investments.

Permission has been granted for a scheme of over 200 new homes near Castleknock in Dublin 15.

EAGLE-EYED investors will swoop on a portfolio sale of nine apartments in Cork’s Jacobs Island — in a block called the Falcon.

Tommy Barker discovers a sense of airiness within this detached home that is all nicely modern but not flashy.

THE former Nemo Rangers site, easily developed and in a cracking inner-suburban setting in Cork City, was expensively acquired by the Fleming Group, and is now for sale for its receivers.

A second top Ring of Kerry hotel, Sheen Falls Lodge, has found international buyer interest in recent weeks

THERE were just eight days to go in the 2010 season and the new Cork City board were huddled over two laptops in the corner of the Turner’s Cross Tavern.

MAHON peninsula, in Cork harbour, was an unappreciated waterfront asset — until the Lee tunnel came into being, and City Hall sold off large land tracts at this geographic ‘backwater,’ for huge money.

CORK’S Southern Ring Road could become a bottleneck like Dublin’s M50 if major development continues along its corridor, the National Roads Authority (NRA) has warned.

A FAMOUS art and furniture collection originally displayed in Fota House in Cork some 30 years ago is back in the famous residence following a donation by a local business and AIB.

LOCK, stock and barrel — that’s how this two-bed apartment at The Moorings, Harty’s Quay is being sold.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan is to invest a further €300m near Mahon in Cork as part of a massive residential development.

FOUR of the biggest landowners in Cork’s sprawling docklands confirmed last night they have combined to drive forward the region’s multibillion regeneration.

Tommy Barker on a five-star package at Sheen Falls Country Club.

Rose Martin says The Lodges has privacy and views of Kenmare Bay.

A FLOTILLA of hundreds of currachs and rowing boats will come right into the heart of Cork city on the June bank holiday weekend.

COASTAL Kerry town Kenmare has been awash with newly-built holiday homes in the past few years, with pending major town centre developments.

IT will cost about €475,000 to drop anchor at 16 The Moorings, a penthouse apartment of over 900 sq ft, with a bit of extra cubic space on top thanks to soaring, high ceilings.

IT will cost about €475,000 to drop anchor at 16 The Moorings, a penthouse apartment of over 900 sq ft, with a bit of extra cubic space on top thanks to soaring, high ceilings.

AN BÓRD Pleanála has enough evidence to confirm a contentious compulsory purchase order (CPO) on 10 hectares of prime land in Cork’s docklands, a local authority said yesterday.

CORK’S sprawling docklands area is on the fast track to a multi-billion euro transformation after it was cleared for vital tax breaks by Europe yesterday.

CAPITAL appreciation has been good at Harty’s Quay, and apartments which cost in the three hundreds two years ago, are now making half a million or more.

I WOULD like to draw your attention to a number of inaccuracies in an article titled “There’s your culture: the arts in 2005” (Irish Examiner, December 27) that Cork 2005 would ask you to correct at your earliest convenience.

THE LARGEST office development ever proposed for Cork city received the go-ahead from the city council yesterday.

THE closing date for submissions for proposals to relocate 600 Revenue Commissioners staff in Cork city passed yesterday.

MANHATTAN meets Munster - as well as Munster rugby star Peter Stringer - as penthouse living arrives from the Hudson River's shores to the Lee estuary.

WITH Cork city and environs getting ready for Capital of Culture status in a year’s time, 2005, the city’s physical realm really had a feel of being a work in progress during 2003.

SOME of the biggest ever house schemes in Cork city and suburbs have moved into gear this week, representing thousands of new homes, and, significantly, a good range of supply just east and west of the city.

A NEW residential location is just coming up on the radar screen for far-seeing Cork house buyers Jacob's Island.

CORK’S new homes market is about to surge - but prices are still expected to grow by up to 10% during 2003.

A BONANZA is a prospect for Cork shoppers with the approval of a €500 million project in Mahon and the planned sale and redevelopment of another shopping centre.