Hettyfield home set to prove popular and tempt buyers, at a more affordable price, writes Tommy Barker

THE spot occupied by this elegant home, Fenton, is, it could be said, in a parallel universe, a garden oasis filled with birdsong in lieu of traffic snarl, sandwiched between Cork city’s Blackrock and Boreenmanna roads.

FOR SALE signs have been falling like felled timber on the Douglas Road in the last year, as the southern city’s older suburbs show all the signs of market recovery and stabilisation. Replacing the signs are those proclaiming ‘Sale Agreed’, and then ‘Sold’.

FOR SALE signs have been falling like felled timber on the Douglas Road in the last year, as the southern city’s older suburbs show all the signs of market recovery and stabilisation.

LEADING owner P.J. Fahy suffered a double blow this week as two of his outstanding trackers have been struck by injury that will force them to miss major engagements.

WHAT they lack in design finesse from the front, the big family homes in Cork’s Janeville make up for in sheer property punch.

THE house name, Greenhills, is in hindsight a bit of a pointer.

THE house name, Greenhills, is in hindsight a bit of a pointer.

THE Boreenmanna Road was one of Cork’s best-kept secrets for years - whole sections fallow on one side, good-quality individual housing on the other and a clear stretch of commuter heaven road leading directly to the south city link road.