First-time buyers looking for a property in the Cork city area would be wise to extend their reach to this three-bed, says Trish Dromey.

Estate agent Jackie Cohalan will ‘split’ the difference with home hunters in 2017, offering split-level living options in locations like Glanmire and at Passage West, where she’s selling a dozen serviced sites, including five for split-level, new-builds.

Although Curraheen needs work, it’s a Well Road prospect well worth considering.

There’s a bit of a lull right now in Cork’s residential house market, it appears, be it as a result of Central Bank lending, post-Budget/pre-Christmas hiatus, Brexit or even Irish political uncertainty.

Although in need of major renovation, No 8 Victoria Avenue is attracting interest as it is within walking distance of Cork city centre.

Brian Olden and Jackie Cohalan of Cohalan Downing Auctioneers (CDA) say “it’s a high-quality property, with a wonderful flow to it, ideal for family living or entertaining.”

A residential investment currently earning €378,000 a year in rent, from 24 modern housing units, is up for sale, less than a kilometre from Cork city centre.

Two for the road at High Street’s Bridge House, says Tommy Barker.

The estate agent has sold the sumptuous Ileclash three times before. It’s easy to see why, writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker on a recently upgraded house of two styles close to all the facilities of Cork’s urban life.

Two of Cork city centre’s oldest, and deservedly cherished, buildings come for sale this week, side by side, on Sheares Street, with shades of London’s classic Spitalfields markets buildings to their credit.

Southerly aspect , city location, with period interiors and long gardens, No 3 Lower Janemount packs a personality punch, says Tommy Barker. 

Tommy Barker says now that Cork harbour has rediscovered its mojo, so too will properties like Simla.

This house called Hillcrest, near Dunnes’ Bishopscourt in Cork’s was only built in the 1980s, so shouldn’t need any huge sums spent on it - it just needs discretionary modernising in its decor and some contemporary updates.

LIVING right by the sea has its attractions and when the location is the inner harbour of Cork, then gales and blustering winds aren’t going to be a problem.

NICHE and oh so very nice is this handy two-bed at 8 Kilbrody, at Cork’s Mount Oval Village.

OH there’s nothing like a fixer-upper to get the imagination racing. Take one wreck, add a few bob, time, effort and a good dash of stress and get a one-off, customised cottage.

ON, off and now on again, Margot at 2 Menloe Park, Blackrock, Cork, is back on the market, having been withdrawn for a year.

GREENBANKS, a detached house on Cork’s Well Road, went up for sale in late 2005, just as the housing boom hit its peak — but despite spiralling prices, it took the market by surprise.

GREAT expectations — buy 16 Foxwood and you’re getting a house and a half. Well, in theory anyway, because this Rochestown property comes with full planning for an attic conversion and ground-floor extension.

FOUR floors of living space within a five minute walk of the city — and a garden.

CORK city’s river quays are noted for their buildings of varying vintages and heights — and a new-build apartment River Gold in final construction continues that trend.

THE best - and the most expensive - has been kept for last at roof level in Cork’s Trinity Court.

IT is a case of ‘out with the old, in with the new’ on Cork city’s Georges Quay.

‘HOME for Christmas’ is one of the attractions at Garrane Darra - a little known setting in Cork’s Bishopstown/Wilton area that is about to become big news.

Tommy Barker profiles a well-designed student block in the city centre.

THERE'S been a swift and predominantly local uptake for the launch of almost 90 new homes in Bandon, West Cork.

BUILT by the same people who bought Charlie Haughey’s Abbeville demesne, Pembroke Wood in Passage, Co Cork, is a Manor Homes development — their first outside the Pale.

FED up with standard house design and layout? For a blast of something fresh and different, try the Olympic, the last houses and most novel house type to go into the Pembroke Wood scheme in the harbour town of Passage West in Co Cork.

HERE’S an on-going quiet revolution off Cork city’s Douglas Street, with millions of euro flowing in property investment.