The second viewer who looked at 2, Ard Patrick in St Luke’s liked it so much that they immediately put in a bid of the €250,000 asking price.

A HEATWAVE was promised for this week - but, as much heat will be generated by a flurry of auction action. 

Lots of references to the river Lee at the compact, detached two-storey Ard na Laoi, at Lee View Place above Cork’s Monkstown. 

A MUNSTER property auction is set to offer 30 lots to investors and buyers in Cork on October 2, following hot on the heels of a very successful Allsops auction last week that netted an all time high of €54m from 194 lots.

Sq m 475 (5,100 sq ft)

Size: 72 sq m (775 sq ft)

A 95% auction success rate was recorded at last week’s IAM Sold/Munster Property Auction sell-off of 20 lots, with all but one finding new owners, evidence of the strength of cash buying and investor interest.

Sq m: 250 (2,700 sq ft proposed)

Sq m: 177 (1,900 sq ft)

There’s a whole range of affordable Limerick, Cork, and Kerry homes coming up for sale in two weeks time, via the I Am Sold/Munster Property Auction method.

Sq m: 168 (1,800 sq ft)

Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft)

Twenty auction lots, including houses plus some commercial offers and investments, are to feature at next week’s I Am Sold Munster Property Auction.

Properties ranging in value from €65,000 to over €525,000 are to feature in an upcoming Munster Property Auction, organised by I Am Sold in partnership with a number of agents.

Sq m: 92.9 (1000 sq ft)

Sq m: 370 (4,000 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 210 (2,250 sq ft)

Sq m: 168 (1,800 sq ft)

There’s been lots done to 7 Murmont Villas by its owners over the last number of years, and now the semi-detached family home off Cork city’s Old Youghal Road is poised for new occupiers.

Sq m: 168 (1,810 sq ft)

Sq m: 98 (1,050 sq ft)

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country

WILTON, CORK €198,000

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

KERRY PIKE, CO CORK €270,000

Taking on this intriguing Cork project will call for some courage, says Tommy Barker.

Three-bed semi offers buyers the chance to experience gentrified social housing from a different era, reports Tommy Barker

No 52 Monastery Avenue, Cork. a smart family home, is priced at just €180,000, Tommy Barker reports.

OLD YOUGHAL ROAD, CORK €299,000

DOUGLAS, CORK €165,000

Tarelton, Co Cork €50,000

Three-bed Douglas semi in turnkey condition boasts extra large garden

This Larchfield house is ready to go, reports Tommy Barker

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around Cork city and county

THE last time this 50 acres (20.23 hectares) farm at Coolymurrahue hit the market it was touted at €40,000 per acre, or €2 million.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

No 27, Brookwood has a pretty back garden with decking and barbecue, says Tommy Barker

A LOW density scheme in Urlingford is now cut to cost in an effort to sell its eight remaining units.

IT’S number 78 Dewberry, but don’t let the high figure give the wrong geographical impression, because this Mount Oval Village whopper is right at the front of the estate at the Clarke’s Hill entrance.

SELLING at €400,000-plus a couple of years ago, No 1 The Crescent in Urlingford, Co Kilkenny is now on offer at €200,000.

THERE has been continuous occupation of this site at Upper Rochestown since the 1600s, and Belmont House is the most recent occupier. It’s not new, though it looks like it was built in the last 20 years.

CONCEIVED and delivered by a low-key Irish developer with sites scattered around Ireland, Rosegreen Studfarm is a bit away from his usual pattern of mixed-use commercial developments.

UNLESS properties are in a bullet-proof setting, price slashing is the only way to get rid of built and unsold stock.

IT used to be ‘Build it and They Will Come,’ now it is a case of ‘Price it Right, and They’ll Come and Buy.’