No 3 Woodview Terrace, Derrynane Road in Cork city’s older suburban Turner’s Cross, is a well-located fixer upper with good space.

AGENTS Lisney bring a second Patrick Street, Cork City, retail building for sale this month as an investment, seeking offers of €750,000 for No 121, opposite the Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre and Marks & Spencers.

Sq m: 293 (3,140 sq ft)

A former estate agent who operated a €1.6m "Ponzi"scheme has lost an appeal against his six-year jail sentence.

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

Tourism company Paddywagon Tours is about to open a second Cork city base, in rapid succession to its first base which opened last August.

THE former Cork City Blacktie store is due for sale, within a week of the Irish suit hire company announcing it was going into liquidation, with closure of 11 shops from tomorrow, after a meeting in the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght.

How a theatre producer transformed a derelict stone cottage into a star attraction. Tommy Barker reports

CARRIGALINE, CORK €275,000

THERE’S a lovely modern take on the traditional two-storey Irish country farmhouse here at this one-off family home in Cork’s Grenagh — so it’s no surprise to find it’s had an architect’s input all along the way.

Momentum has gathered at the Fota Retail Park, coming up on the first anniversary of the arrival of Ballyseedy Garden Centre there last June.

BUILT about 12 years ago, the large family home Oaklodge has lots of design detail and quirks to help it stand out as a home worth hankering after.

Dunmanway, Co Cork €130,000

With an unrivalled site, oodles of space and a contemporary look with cedar trim, No 3 Kings Wood is ready to move into, writes Tommy Barker

Three-bed Douglas semi in turnkey condition boasts extra large garden

Riverside provides an ideal location for those who want to escape the city, but maintain some of the convenience, writes Rose Martin

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around Cork city and county

Tommy Barker reports on a fully-finished upgrade to a house on a choice, deep acre site

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

ROY KEANE and his family have scored with a modest property investment on South Mall, Cork — buying a four-storey building for the price of a mediocre Championship league footballer.

SIZEABLE price reductions are being flagged for the ’09 spring selling season on two very varied house options east of Cork city.

THERE are a few attractive elements to this 65-acre farm for sale at Caheragh, Castleisland, Co Kerry.

INDEPENDENT TD Tony Gregory may have breached data protection laws by passing a woman’s correspondence to a group that vehemently opposed her views.

ONE of the country’s biggest estate agencies has been drawn into a row between anti- and pro-hunt campaigners.

THE decline of the hobby farmer is showing in the small farm market.

The world's biggest drinks can maker Rexam has snapped up an American plastic packaging firm for around $1.57bn (€1.18bn).

Portugal’s investigative Policia Judiciaria (PJ) have interviewed about 100 people in their investigation of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

This property near Ballycotton has two separate residences.

THIS cottage at Booleenshere is possibly the most affordable summer home on the market in the Ballyheigue area at present. It has been extended and given a complete makeover.

EIGHTEEN north Dublin cottage owners are set for a €2 million windfall each after putting their homes jointly up for sale.

PropertyNews.com, a property website based in the North, is going national.

ONE day you’re a rock ‘head’, the next you’re a chippie in a hard hat.

SOMETIMES old ways are best — so for those who hanker after a house instead of an apartment and still want to be city dwellers Ardpatrick holds out hope.

YOU won’t get too many almost new four-bed detached homes in and around Cork city for the €330,000 price mark - and even fewer will have the finish of 10, Pembroke Heights in Passage West.

This bungalow in Ballyvorisheen, to the north of Cork city, has four bedrooms.

A HOUSE up for sale in Midleton’s very successful Castleredmond development has an unusual bonus — the option of taking on the rent roll from the existing tenant if it is going to be bought by an investor or a buyer not yet ready to make a house move.

BLACKPOOL in Cork is one the most successful urban renewal schemes in the country its fortunes have been reversed, and the pace of change continues.

DUBLIN auctioneer Douglas Newman Good is launching a new nationwide franchise operation with the aim of knocking Sherry Fitzgerald from its number one slot.

SET up as a model farm property in the 19th century, this Kerry home is almost chocolate box cover-like in its attractions.