A serene home in countryside south of Cork city offers room to manoeuvre for buyers, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker hears of a lofty, A-rated new 28-house scheme about to be launched on Cork’s Tramore Road.

Family-friendly bungalow has plenty of garden space for child’s play.

Tommy Barker says as city prices soar, theres’ value left in easily commutable rural locations.

Sq. m: 76 (818 sq ft)

Sq m: 98 (1,050 sq ft)

Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country.

This former shoemaker’s house near The Lough is no cobbled job, writes Tommy Barker

Dunkettle, Cork €425,000

Well-tended semi-d overlooking a green area in popular development is suitable on many levels, particularly as it has a large corner site, reports Tommy Barker.

Just coming up on 10 years old, in great shape and superbly finished is this Allihies 2,800 sq ft home — painted white, and that’s really atypical of the West Cork village and its colourful hinterland.

A commercial future use almost certainly beckons for Abbeyfield House, being sold on behalf of a charity on Cork city’s Curraheen Road, right opposite the Melbourn Road junction.

Blackrock, Cork €450,000

A KINSALE island linked to property developer Gerry Gannon is to be sold by tender next month, likely to make a quarter of the sum it last sold for in the mid-2000s.

TWO varied, but equally attention-grabbing home options, have come up at sub-€200,000 prices with Darragh Taaffe of Keane Mahony Smith in Cork city.

BILLED as a Dunne Stores price tag is this three-bed family home near Mitchelstown, with a big detached warehouse alongside, all for a price tag of €199,000.

THERE’S rooms aplenty at the five-bed family home 21, The Gates.

MAKE us an offer — so say the builders and developers of Pairc na gCrann, as they price slash their last, five remaining houses in the 60-plus, Glanworth, Co Cork development.

“THE developer didn’t sit on his hands, here,” says the selling agent of the last four houses in the Glanworth village’s Pairc na gCrann — he’s gone large, for less.

SLIGHTLY older in style and decor, but detached nonetheless, is the good value 295,000-guided four-bed family home 12 Glanmire Court, Cork.

A NEW market arrival near Five Mile Bridge just beyond Cork Airport and off the Kinsale and Bandon roads is this Adamstown bungalow home.

ONE of those rare events in Cork city, a house auction, is due to take place next month for a bungalow on a large site at Uam Var Drive, Curraheen, Cork.

LAST time around, in the mid-2000s, this was a swift property seller for its auctioneer, despite an island setting.

THERE are standard market offerings and there are others — quirky, old and charming properties, like this lodge at Shanagore, Innishannon, Co Cork.

BUYERS can recognise value when they see it — and they clearly saw it at Glanworth this month. Three four/five bed detached houses here have been snapped up at just e250,000 a pop, in the few weeks since they appeared in these pages.

UNLESS properties are in a bullet-proof setting, price slashing is the only way to get rid of built and unsold stock.

FIRST with the news, and first with the mews: the selling agent of 13, Sheraton Court reckons this 1980s-built townhouse will pay its way as an investment.

Tommy Barker finds large Riverstick homes with basement areas.

Affordable prices, good finish in Bandon scheme, says Tommy Barker.

YOU would be inclined to hermit feelings at 24 Hermitage Grove: it is so good inside you won’t want to leave.

SO, just how brave are you?

WHAT with the appetite to build bright, shiny and efficient new homes, it looks like this Model Farm Road cottage is a goner.

THERE’S a touch of the Ottoman Empire or the eastern exotic about the front of this Glasheen Road, suburban Cork house, thanks to something as simple as the ground floor window and door treatment.

TWO by two by two — a brace of semis in parallel streets by Cork’s Lough are listed with selling agent Darragh Taaffe, of Keane Mahony Smith.

SET well back into the supremely convenient Deerpark development in Cork, no 166 Deerpark is a mid-terraced, three bedroom family home in walk-in condition.

A PRIVATE hospital is planned for Cork city’s western suburbs as part of a €500 million development.

THIS is an unusual sale in many respects — house sales in Marian Park, Pouladuff, don’t go public, according to estate agent, Darragh Taaffe, and are usually passed on within the family.