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

Tommy Barker gets lost in a large suburban house with a beautiful garden, carports, and oh, and the house isn’t bad either.

GETTING a parental dig-out from the folks to get on to the housing ladder is nothing new — fathers and mothers have been helping out for generations, and some have been wealthy enough to give the equivalent of a property inheritance even before they die.

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

NUMBER 9 Janeville has not crashed through the million euro property barrier as incorrectly shown in a caption last week.