A SITE for a large 3,000 sq ft one-off house, with planning already in place, has come up just along Cork’s Rochestown Road.

BACK in 2001, this venerable old house at Rosewell, Kinsale dipped its toe in the property market and was then withdrawn.

CORK Week, the sailing extravaganza, has sailed in, and swanned back out again, leaving an estimated €40 million boost to the local Crosshaven economy.

Tommy Barker reports on a new energy-efficient homes scheme with lower pricing appeal and incentives to buy in Barraduff.

WHAT will become of Villa Franca?

GOVERNMENT, Exchequer and IDA commitment will be needed to secure Cork docklands redevelopment and to provide a counter-balance to the burgeoning Dublin region, according to the developers behind an estimated €2 billion masterplan for a 32-acre site on Cork’s south docks.

LANE HOMES are back in action in Cork’s Glounthaune village, with a mix of 26 A-rated energy efficient homes at Gort Fada, at prices from €299,000 to €349,000 (see below).

A DAM fine site, and a rare planning grant, are two of the selling plusses with some 28 acres of land at Inniscarra, Co Cork.

THE house Upper Deck looks like it should ring a bell — literally.

HAVING just sold a Sunday’s Well family home for around €1.7 million, agents Savills HOK have another upper end family home as a new market offering near Cork city.

YOU’ll know it when your ship comes in, at Fort Villas. This elevated residential ridge above Cobh spans all of the maritime traffic and sailing activity in Cork harbour, and with light and views in abundance.

THERE’S real value to be had at Lismirrane House, the big Ring of Kerry house that could be mistaken for a golf clubhouse.

A UNIQUE fundraising drive which will see a builder sell two four-bed houses is close to raising €1.5 million for a new cystic fibrosis (CF) unit in Cork University Hospital.

THE former family home of one-time Cork Lord Mayor Gus (Augustine) Healy, is up for sale.

THEY’RE nearly there — Build4Life are close to raising €1.5 million for a new cystic fibrosis unit in CUH.

A FIFTH of an acre site is not to be sniffed at — least of all when it’s in the heart of Bishopstown.

IN theatre, when a show is over, the set is ‘struck’ — dismantled and carted off, with the stage being set for the next production.

FORGET selling to the ‘great unwashed’, this Norwood Court house site in Cork is definitely pitched at the squeaky clean.

WHILE the southern suburbs of Cork city have lots of new developments, Bishopstown is a bit behind when it comes to housing estates.

Tommy Barker says No 20 Heatherfield has the ideal location.

NOT only do you get 3,800 sq ft of modern living space at this Co Offaly home, you also get 150 recently-planted birch trees and 2,000 planted bluebells for spring colour glory.

Rose Martin says Avondale in Passage West is in a healthy location.

THE long back garden will be the clincher in the sale of ‘Eldon’ — at 120 feet it’s perfect for families and means extensions won’t eat into the house’s long green piece of ground.

AND, they’re off, with yet another house joining the sale race at the Paddocks in Cork.