Enticing price for four-bedroom Carrigaline property, Tommy Barker reports.

This Carrigaline house in south Cork is selling itself, hears Tommy Barker

Carrigaline, Co Cork €149,000

EVERYTHING has been done to 51 Meadowgrove in Carrigaline, a so-affordable trading up option for families in this Carrigaline and general south county Cork area, thanks to its €225,000 asking price.

A FANTASTIC house — that’s how auctioneer Dan Howard of Dooley and Howard describes a recently-built, one-off in the country.

A SURPRISINGLY spacious four bedroom house is on offer close to UCC at 21, Clarke’s Road, Ballyphehane, Cork through agents Dooley and Howard.

YOU can see the wood and the trees, and a whole lot more at this high Austrian house, in a pure Irish setting.

A LARGE, detached house at Glenville, Co Cork offers a lot of house for the guide of €280,000.

NO 21 Woodvale, Heron’s Wood, Carrigaline, is a smartly presented house that will charm viewers.

THE trains to west Cork have gone for the past half-century from the vicinity of Albert Road and Albert Quay in Cork city centre, but the location is still right on track for urban area home hunters.

WHAT is it about Cork and architecture? While cranes were swarming over the capital during the boom, the ‘real capital’ had a handful – at best.

THE sale sign hadn’t even gone up, and already estate agent Dan Howard had a nibble. Only problem was, it wasn’t from a bidder or a buyer — but from a bunny.

A SIMPLE box ticking exercises of house buying types would categorise a three-bed semi-d as a house for first time buyers, with the trading up option as a four-bed detached. But, there’s also scope for four-bed semi-ds, and that’s the sort of buyer estate agent Dan Howard is finding at No 91 Old Court, in Cork’s Ballincollig.

MORE for your money. Not so long ago €345,000 would have got you a fairly standard three-bed semi-d in Co Cork’s Carrigaline commuter town.

A SPARK of imagination, and a good eye, has lifted the detached home 58 Westwood out of the ordinary.

BOTH have water views – and both vendors have taken a view to a sale, dropping asking prices by hundreds of thousands of euros.

ESTATE agents’ brochures invariably highlight the positives — but is a healthy 90-minute walk really going to sell a house? Or, is it telling us something about the way in which people may commute from their energy-saving homes in the future?

THERE are three house prospects in the one property at Woolhara House — subject to market forces.

IS the property market about to pick up, and turn a corner? The owner of Loreto House appears to think so, as it has just had its asking price put up despite being on the market since last summer.

BACK in December 2007, No 10 Wheatfields in Carrigaline, Co Cork, came under offer at €735,000 ... but went no further than early offers.

SHEARE smart. A new L-shaped house, tacked on to the side of an older one and built on its overgrown gardens, is a suburban property market offering with a twist.

Tommy Barker says this new hillside property is a slice of old Cork

A BUILDER had sought to buy and reshape this Carrigaline waterside bungalow, but the sale didn’t go through, and now the original, relocating vendors are selling once more, with full planning in place on the property for a doubling in size.

THERE’S a smashing back garden with this house at 11, Croaghtamore Gardens, on Upper Pouladuff Road in Cork and it has plenty room for an extension at the back.

WHERE can you get a modern, five-bed detached house with garden in the heart of Cork city?

FARMYARDS are being scooped up on city outskirts by purchasers, to overcome house planning difficulties.

KIDS love a card game called 52-card pick up — it’s where they get you to agree to play with them, they scatter the cards on the ground and tell you to pick up all 52.

NEW semi’s for €95,000 and building sites for €8,000? It’s all possible through affordable housing with Cork County Council who offer a range of options for first-time buyers throughout the county.

GOOD viewing interest is being shown in the former Rectory in Ballygarvan in Cork, which hit the market two weeks ago with a €850,000 guide price.

By Tommy Barker

TALL and gracious and with an appeal for two distinct types of buyer, College Road properties in Cork city are always in demand. Following a slow start in January, this month sees two such properties for sale.

ONE of Cork city’s best kept secrets has to be Sidney Park, just off Patrick’s Hill.