Tommy Barker admires a beautifully-maintained five-bed Victorian home on the edge of Cork’s booming docklands.

Blackrock still has plenty of pulling power, as two €1.75m+ deals are secured writes Tommy Barker.

It can be hard to keep in step with the neighbours, can’t it?

WE’VE been here, to this very house, before. And, on this ‘House of the Week’ page also.

Ardnagrena is a large but graceful gem which has been well maintained and sensitively updated, writes Tommy Barker.

There’s a dearth of house sites left in Cork’s affluent suburbs. It’s conquer and divide, says Tommy Barker.

A number of new office occupiers and sale deals are coming to an end-of-year close in the heart of Cork city, at Lapps Quay, at City Quarter, and at the Elysian, where a new walk-in medical clinic is set to open next month and where a new restaurant letting is agreed. Plus there’s 12,000 sq ft of offices at the Elysian under active negotiation via Lisney.

Dunsland House’s 50 acres can be bought in four lots, including 14 with main house, says Tommy Barker.

Already gone over its price guide and under swift offer at €715,000 is Sunview, one of the most surprising house property packages to come to the open market in Cork for a while.

THERE’s a zoning game of patience to be played out on a former Cork suburban pitch and putt course, with the arrival of a prime land parcel, detached house and old stone outbuildings on the South Douglas Road.

The place next door quite famously fetched €27.5m, at an electric auction process, back in 2006.

Apartments are well on the way back price-wise in Cork, with post-slump demand and values driven by location, most of all.

FANCY living in the city, in a period home, with amenities all on the doorstep, for under €400k? 

Tommy Barker visits Limetrees Road.    

This 10-year old property ‘compound’ has its very own hard surface, fully fenced tennis court amid other garden delights.

WHOEVER gets to buy 19 Sunday’s Well Road will have to take a view on it — once they get the view, they’ll get the urge, and the big picture.

A super-long site, a settled suburban setting with dome views of Dennehy’s Cross Church at its back, and drains replaced and foundations underpinned — there’s going to be good viewing traffic at Glenlara, or 9 Wilton Gardens.

On a great corner site in Cork’s Browningstown matrix of parks, this three-bed semi-d called Corbally is “your blank canvas, it’s waiting for someone to come in and make something special of it.”

Back from the US, and back into the bar-and-restaurant business on their home turf — it’s the Irish version of the American dream for John and Lisa Cronin.

The pristine No 5, Gleann Caoin, is a split-level four-bed in a quiet cul de sac in Cork village, says Laurie O’Flynn.

No 64, Castle Meadows, off the Skehard Road, measures 1,750 sq ft after a two-storey add-on and is priced at €265,000, says Tommy Barker.

Extended five-bed has small rear garden, says Tommy Barker.

The Overdraught has been cleared — or, at least, the bar/restaurant of that name is set to return to business.

Sq m 67 (720 sq ft)

Rocklodge, Cork €975,000

Sq m: 115 (1.240 sq ft)

Sq m: 190 (2,050 sq ft)

Sq m: 188 (2,020sq ft)

Sq m: 155 (1,650 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 45/65 (500/700 sq ft)

City buyers cutting cloth to their financial means, stressing location over size Tommy Barker reports.

Location: Douglas, Cork

The 5,000 sq ft, mint-order, Orchard House in the grounds of Cork’s Maryborough House Hotel has barely been lived in since it was last sold-and-bought, in 2010. The price is €1.55m for the five/six-bed three-storey home done to a high build and finish standard, and to a Victorian-style template, says Tommy Barker