The relocation of fashion retailer Cari’s Closet from Carey’s Lane to Patrick Street, Cork, brings 12, Carey’s Lane, to the letting market.

With a guide of €165,000, No 18 Fr Dominic Road in Balylphehane is getting good first-time buyer attention.

Size: Sq m 184 (2,000 sq ft)

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

Location: Douglas, Cork

A prime, former shoe shop with one of the most attractive original shops fronts in Cork City’s Oliver Plunkett Street (and almost 60 years of trading history) is looking for new uses.

DOUGLAS, CORK €375,000

Analore on Cork’s Castle Road, will need some work, but it does have its attractions, writes Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker rounds up some of the movers and shakers in an otherwise depressed year on the domestic property front

9 Elm Close is prefect for a single buyer or a trader-down. Tommy Barker reports

ONE of a row of eight, two-storey homes built by Falveys in the 1980s in the quiet Knockrea Lawn estate has a personal link to the builders — it was kept by them as a family home, and only now comes up for sale, for the first time.

A SIDE garden site, with full planning for a detached house, has swiftly gone ‘sale agreed’ on Cork city’s Orchard Road, as a do-er upper a few doors away gets a price cut and change of selling agent.

IF architects hadn’t been so grievously hit by the construction downturn, there’d be a queue of them trying to buy 5 Westview. Now, they’ll be here, touting for work.

HOUSES don’t come up for sale very often in Endsleigh Park, off the main Douglas Road in Cork city, just a few hundred yards from the bustling suburban village.

THE gardens will sell Wilton Heights, in Upper Ardmore in Cork’s Passage West, but the house is no slouch either.

Tommy Barker says Cork houses have broken the million mark by the dozen in 2005.

Tommy Barker looks back at a year when pubs adapted to the smoking ban and the arrival of new competitors.

SEPTEMBER’S selling season and new product launches are in full swing - but the message for first-time buyers is ‘prepare to leave town’.

THE market for good family homes north of Lee in Cork has been evidenced in recent weeks with a spectacular house sale just under €2.2 million.

THE John Barleycorn Hotel in Glanmire, Cork, has just changed hands for around €5 million.

ONE of the most convenient suburbs of Cork city is Ballintemple, near Blackrock. It’s close to the city and is well served by roads and bus services.

THE imperative for high returns on property investment, one of the strongest drivers of our economy, will be one reason why ‘Monteray’ could be flattened to rubble.

A PRIME site sale which went astray thanks to a mapping error is headed in the right direction once more.

ROSIES bar in Carrigaline, Co Cork failed to find a buyer, or even a bidder, at auction last week.

YOU won’t get a better position in Bishopstown than Wilton Avenue.

Tommy Barker

NEWS of the sale of one of the biggest southside Cork bars, the Ardmanning, has gone public.

HOUSE hunters looking to get into the upper end of the market in Cork have had their thoughts turned to suburban Douglas, as much by virtue of the selection of good second-hand stock as by the quality of location.