Tommy Barker says that this well-appointed late-1990s family home benefits greatly from its idyllic location on Cork’s Rochestown Road

There are almost 20 large, detached one-off homes done to a variety of architectural styles and big, blowsy budgets, at the Ard Chuain development, which takes its name from the height it’s set at above Passage West, spanning expanses of Cork harbour.

Kya deLongchamps considers a chic waterside Rochestown apartment with village amenities at its back

This spacious Foxwood bungalow keeps getting better and better , says Tommy Barker

Coming to market as the temperatures picked up, No 57 Manor Grove, is a hot prospect, says Tommy Barker

Auctioneer Florence Gabriel of Sherry FitzGerald launches No 18 at €350,000, and it’s quite the typical original layout.

“You can feel the love,” enthuses Florence Gabriel, the selling agent of this three-bed end-terrace home.

Turnout is expected to be high at open viewings for starters, says Trish Dromey.

Despite, having just had a notional ‘change of address,’ the owners of Clondoyle, or 5 Browningstown are still on the move from their extended suburban Cork family home.

This is a mellow-looking brick-faced home in the Mount Oval Village development in Cork’s Rochestown.

One half of these golden pair of exceptional semi-d’s has just come to the market, writes Tommy Barker.

The sale in the past year of a corner-set, all-done up home at Ballinlough’s Somerton Park set a recent price record, of €367,500, having initially gone to market at €295,000 in a very frenetic mid-summer 2015 market.

IN PROPERTY sales, quick results most readily come from a top location, a top address or simply a covetable home, in tip-top order. 

The cheeriest thing about No 6, Birchgrove, is its dark-pink/red colour. 

Billed as a prospect for a first-time buyer, and priced at €235,000, there’s every chance yet that Shalamar will be bought by a trader down, or a trader-in, driven by it location.

A price drop on the very well-finished Monkstown, Cork harbour home, 5 De Vesci Place should put it back on the radar of house hunters, and with a wider band of bidders also.

THERE’s a good base to work with at the detached home 10, Grange Erin.

Mature, bedded down gardens with colour — even heading into winter months — are an indication of the care taken down the years at 44 Rochestown Rise.

IT’S eight years now since the scheme of contemporary-styled houses at Cork’s Elden got launched — and they still look crisp and modern.

A good starter home, in a great location — so says estate agent Florence Gabriel as she joins Sherry FitzGerald in Cork, and lists 2 Rowan Hill at a €210,000 price guide. 

Street Trend meets Belfast’s Tara Marzuki and Florence Gabriel from Cork.