ZONED land bought for €21m in 2004, at the height of the boom when Munster developer John Barry of Castlelands Construction was building up to 700 houses a year, has eventually come back to market for just 7% of that peak value, €1.5 million.

A RENT roll of €72,000 a year from six tenants, plus 22 vacant business/industrial units stretching to almost 100,000 sq ft of buildings on over five town acres, is on offer for the all-in sum of €750,000.

Tommy Barker scans the late poet Seán Ó Tuama’s family home on the outskirts of Cork city, mixing country living with city convenience, views of the Lee Fields, and a unique place in Irish literary history

Don’t be blinkered, there’s value and a great finish in this Passage West beauty, says Tommy Barker.

Melbourn Estate in Bishopstown has alway had a sort of American suburbs layout and feel to it, much in part due to the way it was laid out, back around 1969, with all front gardens undivided and rolling one to the other another, with neat lawns along its length, between Curraheen Rd and Model Farm Rd.

The former home of composer John Gibson hits all the right notes, says Tommy Barker

An architect’s own one-off home in Cork

Carrigtwohill house attracting the first-time buyers, writes Trish Dromey.

This home is in a highly popular location, just off the Curraheen Road, near schools, shops, services and the sports facilities at the CIT.

For a cash buyer with €110,000 to spend, No 9 Wyse’s Hill on Sunday’s Well, and overlooking Cork city to its rear, might make an interesting proposition.

Tommy Barker reports on a bungalow with a sense of space.

This two-storey property was built in the mid 1950s, and so will be newer than many of the neighbouring homes, and it has an elevated deck, facing south. 

VICTORIAN terraces on either side of this Douglas Road home get their names from trees.

A red-brick home of distinction in university heartland, No 3 could have a wide appeal, writes Tommy Barker.

This four-bed semi d at 18 Hollygarth, Donnybrook in Douglas is a renovation project, no doubt.

Evidence of the imbalance between supply and demand in cities like Cork is seen in the return of open viewings — and, as equally, in the large numbers turning up at those same viewings.

Two buying types looking at accommodating home, says Tommy Barker.

Originally a four bed home, this home has been extended so it has many rooms to spare, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker is impressed with Annaville at the Lough in Cork. 

There’s a fully-functioning, home-away-from home office coming gratis with the smart three-bed semi-d at 110 Fort Hill, the Murnane & O’Shea development up at Moneygourney, outside Douglas, Cork.

As temperatures and tennis enthusiasm soar during Wimbledon season, a family home with a private tennis court of its own, can expect to attract set viewings.

A lot of work has gone into the decor of 17 Hazel Road, a mid-terraced three bed family home, handily right next door to a Lidl in Cork’s Togher suburb. 

This four-bed semi-d called ‘La Puente’, inside and at the back end of the Endsleigh estate off Cork’s main Douglas Road, is primed for updating, once in new ownership.

An investment opportunity with six modern residential properties built 10 years ago is on offer off Spring Lane, in Cork city’s Blackpool employment hub.

Tommy Barker says a suburban house benefits from space — in and out.

 

There’s more than what first greets the eye for buyers, or viewers, at 154 Eagle Valley, in Cork’s suburban Wilton.

Launched the week before Christmas and first shown to viewers the day after Little Christmas, 94 Fort Hill, Moneygourney in Douglas is expected to go sale agreed before the end of January.

There’s considerable scope at the detached three-bed Mayfield bungalow called Celedene which carries a €150,000 AMV with agent Sean McCarthy of ERA Downey McCarthy.

Lower Glanmire Road, Cork