This four-bed home is in rock-solid order, with ‘personable’ aspect and presentation, and a strong selling location.

Lots of boxes are ticked at 40 Sandymount Avenue, in Cork’s Glasheen, so a new owner can just move in and start their own personal tweaks, as they see fit.

A serene home in countryside south of Cork city offers room to manoeuvre for buyers, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker hears of a lofty, A-rated new 28-house scheme about to be launched on Cork’s Tramore Road.

It’s a house and a half, literally, within the town boundary of north Cork’s Kanturk.

Tommy Barker says as city prices soar, theres’ value left in easily commutable rural locations.

Sq. m: 76 (818 sq ft)

Sq m: 98 (1,050 sq ft)

Sq m: 255 (2,750 sq ft)

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country.

This former shoemaker’s house near The Lough is no cobbled job, writes Tommy Barker

Dunkettle, Cork €425,000

MODEL FARM ROAD, CORK €195,000

BALLYPHEHANE, CORK €215,000

A 180-year-old terraced two-bed period home is really looking its best, says Tommy Barker

Blackrock, Cork €450,000

A KINSALE island linked to property developer Gerry Gannon is to be sold by tender next month, likely to make a quarter of the sum it last sold for in the mid-2000s.

TWO varied, but equally attention-grabbing home options, have come up at sub-€200,000 prices with Darragh Taaffe of Keane Mahony Smith in Cork city.

A LOVELY family home is how John Barry of Keane Mahony Smith describes 56, Hawthorn Mews, on Cork’s Dublin Hill.

ROY KEANE and his family have scored with a modest property investment on South Mall, Cork — buying a four-storey building for the price of a mediocre Championship league footballer.

BILLED as a Dunne Stores price tag is this three-bed family home near Mitchelstown, with a big detached warehouse alongside, all for a price tag of €199,000.

THERE’S rooms aplenty at the five-bed family home 21, The Gates.

MAKE us an offer — so say the builders and developers of Pairc na gCrann, as they price slash their last, five remaining houses in the 60-plus, Glanworth, Co Cork development.

FIVE to six years old, this bungalow at Tramore Road, Cork, is an infill build in this south city location.

MILLION-PLUS house sales – even in Dublin – were rare as hen’s teeth in the comatose year now coming to end, without any recovery signs imminent, either.

WANT to know what to do with unwanted Christmas presents? Put them under the hammer.

IF you can’t sell your house, or are just stuck for cash in any case, how about selling some of the toys of the Celtic Tiger era?

THERE’S a flavour of continental Europe about 22, Glincool Gardens in Cork’s Ballincollig suburbs.

ONE of those rare events in Cork city, a house auction, is due to take place next month for a bungalow on a large site at Uam Var Drive, Curraheen, Cork.

LAST time around, in the mid-2000s, this was a swift property seller for its auctioneer, despite an island setting.

Tommy Barker says this Co Cork home has lots of landscape features.

BUYERS can recognise value when they see it — and they clearly saw it at Glanworth this month. Three four/five bed detached houses here have been snapped up at just e250,000 a pop, in the few weeks since they appeared in these pages.

John Barry of Keane Mahony Smith is going well below the average price guide for the area with his €340,000 asking price for 8 Oakfield Lawn.

THE bulk of this farm at Lissaniskey, Upton, Co Cork was sold in the buoyant property days of 2003 through Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith.

SELLING agent Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith is seeing good interest in a farm at Ballygarvan, Co Cork, where there are 14 acres on offer with frontage onto the Carrigaline road.

BUILT in a leafy hollow just outside Kilumney in Co Cork, Brookhaven fits the bill for the big, one-off, beloved of growing families.

PART of a land accumulation for a tourism development at Hangman’s Point in Kinsale, Co Cork has hit the market with joint agents, Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith and Denis Ryan of Ryan and Co.

Tommy Barker finds large Riverstick homes with basement areas.

Affordable prices, good finish in Bandon scheme, says Tommy Barker.

SO, just how brave are you?

WHAT with the appetite to build bright, shiny and efficient new homes, it looks like this Model Farm Road cottage is a goner.

HOUSES in Cork’s Marble Hall Park used to only rarely crop up for sale.