Do-er upper back on market, within a year, and now 11 Magdala Terraces is all done up and set for a Christmas wrap, writes Tommy Barker

Monkstown harbour-scanning home is small, but perfectly formed, and very well located.

Done up to the nines, with some architectural aplomb and, quirkily, with a strong, pink-hued thread running through its decor and interior design, it’s now a very sizeable 3,391 sq ft private family home.

A magical touch has been added to Locmor since it last came on the market a decade ago, writes [Tommy Barker

FOR SALE: Bachelor Pad, one careful owner for the past 88 years.

This luxurious home tucked into one of Cork city’s more secluded areas has been greatly expanded by its owners, writes Tommy Barker.

Blackrock still has plenty of pulling power, as two €1.75m+ deals are secured writes Tommy Barker.

A CORK suburban development site which sold for a very strong €3.5m less than two years ago, has been quielty returned to the market, at a c €2m mark-up, according to sources.

You can be sitting pretty in this elevated St Luke’s Cross area period home, writes Tommy Barker.

It's not only the streets, the back roads and the boreens of Schull which will be teeming with sporting activity this day next week – so too will be the churning waters of the harbour.

Sales of houses across the province continued to grow in 2018, especially in urban areas, writes Tommy Barker.

Home in one of Cork’s most desirable addresses is as fresh as a daisy after careful expansions and renovations, writes Tommy Barker.

Old Blackrock Road refurbed home is in walk-in condition, and is an easy walk to all of Cork city centre’s services and amenities too, says Tommy Barker.

Last year, and right through 2019 also, Cork’s Model Farm Road has been and will continue to be quite the busy-bee spot of new house building, assertive pricing and selling, mostly geared at those with a good mid- to upper price level spending discretion.

No 51 is an elegant three-storey with traditional interior design touches in the 65-house development, says Tommy Barker.

PLANS for a €100m residential development in Cork’s Mahon, with 413 units across six blocks including one mooted tower of 25 storeys tall by the Jack Lynch Tunnel approach is being proposed for lands owned by McCarthy Properties.

Big is beautiful in this Glounthaune scheme where No 24 could be your doorway to heaven, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker profiles a home in a posh part of Cork that, while modest in size, offers scope for serious expansion.

Tommy Barker admires a substantial architect-designed home near flourishing Glanmire just minutes from Cork city.

The wraps are coming off Cois Atha, a Skibbereen house development above the town end of the Baltimore Road. 

It’s not very often that you get a home of this size and quality near Douglas, and mere minutes from Cork city centre. Tommy Barker admires the perfectly up-to-date Lisheen, a fine large home sitting pretty on over 0.6 of an acre in leafy Woodview

Tommy Barker takes a look at a renovated property close to Cork city centre, which has old world charm and attractive design

This is a mellow-looking brick-faced home in the Mount Oval Village development in Cork’s Rochestown.

THERE’S almost a moveable feast on the doorstep of The Cottage, an original style former fisherman’s cottage by the end of the Ferry Road, in coastal Cork’s Fountainstown: here, the tides have been steadily pushing back a sand spit or sandbar, inching it further up the scenic creek just west of the popular south Cork beach.

THE Price Register has seemingly thrown up a pre-Christmas sale anomaly, listing an apartment on Cork’s Ballinlough Road as a €3 million sale.

Tommy Barker considers life in the sloe lane in this funky hideaway situated between Rosscarbery and Clonakilty.

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

Sterling and dollar strength is delivering a boon in sales, says country homes estate agent Michael H Daniels. 

There’s practically a new home feel to the interior of 3 Douglas Hall Mews, despite the fact it’s coming up on 30 years of age: it’s because its owners did it all up from top to toe, when they moved in just five years ago.

THERE’S A solid, repro Edwardian look to the houses at Hill Farm, out at Cork’s Model Farm Road. Now, one of the earlier builds, No 6 which dates to 2002, has come for sale on mature gardens, facing Hill Farm’s big green space.

Blackrock village setting by a rail line amenity walk add to offer at unusual terraced layout, says Tommy Barker.

The guide for this substantial four bed detached home indicates a resurgent market, writes Tommy Barker.

The several dozen houses out at Bridevalley, in Cork’s Aherla, are big, wide builds, and when it comes to No 29, it has extras on the side, and on top.

THERE’s a few line-outs and scrums of viewers locking heads together, at open viewings this week and early this afternoon at 50, Pearse Road, next to Musgrave Park’s rugby pitches and grounds.

Size: Sq m 303 (3,250 sq ft)

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.