Built to accommodate a large family back in 2001, this detached six-bed house has done its duty, and with a nest emptying at a rate, it’s now being offered for sale by its down-sizing owners.

Space and good value combine at 24 Fernway, in Classes Lake, at Ovens/Ballincollig west of Cork, where €180,000 will buy a four-bed duplex apartment with a 24’ long outside veranda.

Tommy Barker finds two similar properties with similar prices to tempt both investors and owner-occupiers.

Newly listed with agents Global Properties is Haven Lodge, one of the largest family homes around in the greater Ballinhassig area, a 15-minute spin west of Cork city and airport.

It’s bucket and spade time again as summer beckons — and estate agent Barry Nagle of Global Properties has a coastal Co Cork home up for grabs, ideal for the largest of families.

This one-bedroomed unit has generous living accommodation and is easy on the eye, fitted out with oak-flooring and tasty touches.

A price guide at €79,000 might mean some love in the air at this North Cork home - appropriately in a scheme called The Pastures, in Love Lane, Charleville.

Up on a hill above the town, No 7 Admiral’s Walk offers a good vantage point for watching yachts sail in and out of Kinsale Harbour.

Might it be second time lucky for estate agency firm Global Properties in East Cork - gratis of the Irish Examiner? Sale hopes are high in the case of the detached bungalow at the Welsh-sounding spot of Llennoco, with sea views at Garryvoe Lower.

Size: 122 sq m (1,300sq ft)

Size: 310 sq m (3,200 sq ft)

Ballinhassig, Cork €375,000/€399,000

Sq m: 92 (980 sq ft)

Sq m:108 (Sqft 1160)

Sq m: 122 (1,310 sq ft)

Sq m: 142 (1,560 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 200 (2,150 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 100 (1,100sq ft)

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

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

Tommy Barker reports on a detached house sale at Waterfall, Cork

BANK of Ireland’s director of business banking in Ireland and Britain has said he is “fed up to the back teeth” of people saying they can’t get loans from the bank.

ANYONE for the last showhouse now? The final piece of a 99-house jigsaw at The Orchards, Kinsale, Co Cork, has just launched this week at a knockdown €315,000.

WORTH ‘more dead than alive’ may sum up the Rochestown Road family home of a man in the building trades profession.

MAYBE it is the new commuter train services, but property sales in east Cork’s Carrigtwohill are tipping away quite nicely, says Barry Nagle of Global Properties.

ONE end of the market that appears to be immune to the downturn is the sale of serviced sites.

ONE end of the market that appears to be immune to the downturn is the sale of serviced sites.

LINDVILLE sur mere? A new estate of houses at Ballycotton, Co Cork, reflect the Victorian style of the high-value city scheme.

HOUSE buyers are now getting better value — and often better properties in better locations.

WELL priced for a first-time buyer or investor looking for an easy-keep place to let out in a strong rental location, is 7, Lios na Greine, a two-bed ground floor apartment off the South Douglas Road in Cork city.

ON a site of over half an acre with elevated views over the Shournagh Valley, this house on the Shournagh Drive, Blarney, is a great trader-upper option.

THERE’S a sense of both balance and proportion about this big Ballyviniter house and the proportions are large.

THE publicly-quoted building firm McInerney's have housing developments on the go all over Ireland, and beyond.

THE early birds into An Caislean, a house development in Ballincollig, made money from the start.

LONG associated with fields of mobile homes, the tide is turning slightly in favour of permanent houses at Blue Flag beach Owenahincha in West Cork.

LONG associated with fields of mobile homes, the tide is turning slightly in favour of permanent houses at Blue Flag beach Owenahincha in West Cork.

DEVELOPERS Frinailla are firing on many cylinders, with apartment schemes selling quickly in Midleton and Ballincollig in Co Cork, and with major residential and commercial plans in the planning process for Grand Parade and Watercourse Road in the city centre.

WITH the new by-pass plan for Fermoy and a new River Blackwater crossing inching ahead, a new house development close to its path will proves the adage that development follows roads — and in this case precedes them.

WITH a sports club going a-roving, a prime student accommodation development site is about to change hands on Cork city’s Bandon Road.

A RECENT full grant of planning permission for extension and modification opens the door to make a whole new home of the curiously titled house Donya Sabuk, on Cork city’s Model Farm Road.

AN BRUACH, at the Halfway, Ballinhassig, in Co Cork, is on the brink of being sold out — in just three days.

VIEWS over Monkstown Bay in Cork harbour come with some of the last six of eighteen houses to sell in The Orchard scheme.