No 28 has a good, wide site with off-street parking that will take side extension as well as rear add ons.

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

Renovation work and affordability draws the players, Trish Dromey finds.

Built in the middle of the last century, this fine home is close to city centre and all amenities writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker tees up a spacious family home near Cork’s Douglas Golf Course, with an Augusta address.

Neat as pin, and overlooking a point — that’s this Church Bay, Crosshaven, Co Cork, home with a wide appeal to home hunters of the holiday or permanent residence persuasion.

Size: 120sq m (1,320sq ft)

Size: 120 sq m (1,300 sq ft)

A bungalow on a ‘beautifully proportioned site’ is too good to miss, says Tommy Barker

BALLINLOUGH, CORK €340,000

YOU could probably fit a tennis court in the back garden of this suburban home — the auctioneers claim it’s “a spectacular 170’ long.”

There’s a great feel to this affordable semi-d, say its agents, writes Tommy Barker.

A selection of starter homes from around the country

IF the march of the Celtic Tiger had gone on longer, the views from number 13, Augusta Drive might be different now.

THEY made €1 million to €1.5 million during the boom — depending on site size and condition — and one sales asking price even breached €2 million.

A LUNG-expanding climb from Sunday’s Well Road, via a narrow boreen, leads to a level plateau high above Cork city.

THE other side of the slump is the chain problem — one house sale falling through has a knock-on effect on others.

PALMDALE cornered a local market niche as far back as the mid-1990s. This detached house was an early example of the wisdom of building on available corner garden sites.

A HIDDEN gem is how auctioneer Jim Coughlan describes 8 Springfort Crescent, and it’s a fairly accurate description for a house that tidily hides a bulk of 2,300 sq ft.

THE bottom half of the property market may be slackening, but that’s not evident at the upper end where buyers seem immune to swings in the ECB interest rate.

A TERRACED cottage at4 Cornelscourt Cottage in Foxrock, Dublin, needs complete renovation but it’s got period charm and a great address — so Lisney expects lots of interest in it when it goes for auction on May 31.

LOOKING very traditional on the outside, but thoroughly modern on the inside, number 57, New Cork Road, Midleton, is on the market for offers in the region of €200,000.