Person: Michael Pigott

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Auctioneers have had to join the legions forced into creative thinking to save their business, while all the time hoping that this pandemic is shortlived and not a shock of the magnitude that caused the property market to crash in 2008. File picture.

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Virtual Reality: Auctioneers’ new world in time of coronavirus

As Covid-19 plays havoc with almost every aspect of life, auctioneers have joined those forced into creative thinking to save their business, writes Catherine Shanahan

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Luxury homes and €1m hideaway among Cork's big housing sales of the year so far

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TRADING UP: A selection of trading up homes in city and county

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Huge first-time buyer interest in stylish, modern harbour home in Monkstown

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A grand apartment to call home in Crosshaven

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Rochestown property set to prove attractive to families

A lovingly-minded family home in Carrigaline

Tommy Barker sees a ready-to-walk-into home with outstanding design, colour scheme, and finish

Sat, 01 Jul, 2017

This high spec, four-bed Crosshaven home was well-built in 2010

Tommy Barker climbs aboard for a look around this spacious and high-spec home in the Cork Harbour town. 

Sat, 13 May, 2017

This Kinsale bungalow, on 0.75 acre site, is highly energy efficient

This contemporary five-bed house is spacious and environmentally friendly, writes Tommy Barker.

Sat, 04 Mar, 2017

Carrigaline home is awash with colour with French personality

This three-bed semi has been given a French twist, and some dramatic paint schemes, writes Trish Dromey.

Sat, 04 Mar, 2017

Starter home: Carrigaline, Co Cork, €245,000

This three-bed Carrigaline home could suit first-timers, according to Trish Dromey.

Sat, 17 Dec, 2016

WATCH: House of the week: Camden Road, Crosshaven €495,000

If you wanted a marine comparison for this diminutive Cork harbour home called Melvin, it’s that it resembles a dinghy....that thinks it’s a yacht.

Sat, 23 Jul, 2016

Trading up: Crosshaven, Cork €500,000

This is a 2,200 sq ft, five-bed, brick and dash-finished dormer home on the elevated road out from Crosshaven village to Camden Fort.

Sat, 16 Jul, 2016

Trading up: Carrigaline, Cork, €365,000

Now quite a few decades old, Carrigaline’s Glenwood development is perennially popular: it’s slap bang in the town, with entrances onto the main approach strip to Carrigaline opposite Cogans’ Garage, as well as to the Ballinrea Road which gives a second city commute option via Douglas and Donnybrook.

Sat, 28 May, 2016

Trading up: Kilnagleary, Carrigaline €395,000

Time has caught up with this brick bungalow at Kilnagleary, above Carrigaline and the Owenabue estuary in Cork. 

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016

Trading Up: Monkstown, Cork Harbour, €495,000

Lofty views over Cork Harbour come gratis with this ‘upside-down’ house Lisard, or No 3 Diamond Hill, in Monkstown.

Sat, 26 Mar, 2016

Separate the wheat from the chaff with this Carrigaline, Cork property

Tommy Barker says 38, Wheatfields in Carrigaline is unexpectedly back on the market and there have already been several swift viewings.

Sat, 30 Jan, 2016

Plenty to digest in coastal Rennies, Nohoval, Cork

Tommy Barker finds a coastal family home near south Cork’s Nohoval, all set up for to safe, active child-centered fun and outdoor life. 

Sat, 23 Jan, 2016

A quality finish and loads of space in this Carrigaline home

IT’S just one more step up, an extra €100k or so, for local Carrigaline estate agent Michael Pigott over his recent dozen or so trading up sales in his beat of Cork’s satellite town.

Sat, 17 Oct, 2015

Bennett Construction awards 54% pay rise to directors

The directors of building group Bennett Construction granted themselves an aggregate 54% pay increase last year as revenues and profits at the business rocketed.

Fri, 06 Mar, 2015

New builds for New Year

Carrigaline, Cork €475,000

Sat, 06 Dec, 2014

Annesgrove, Carrigtwohill €295,000

Not too many large detached properties have come on the market in East Cork’s Carrigtwohill recently, so this six-bed dormer bungalow at Annesgrove is attracting a bit of attention. 

Sat, 29 Nov, 2014

Trading up: Carrigaline, Co Cork, €395,000

Size: 184sq m (2,000 sq ft)

Sat, 30 Aug, 2014

Trading up: Church Road, Carrigaline Guide price: €395,000

Size:1184sqm (2,000 sqft)

Sat, 23 Aug, 2014

Trading up: Carrigaline, Cork, €450,000

Sq m: 240 (2,600 sq ft)

Sat, 02 Nov, 2013

House of the week

Grey Court House is going to have an appeal for buyers looking for a period house, country living, horses, pets and gardening.

Sat, 29 Jun, 2013

Trading Up

CARRIGALINE, Co CORK €295,000

Sat, 18 Feb, 2012

On the shores of... Rocky Bay

YOU can walk, or jog, to Rocky Bay for a swim from this great up-market, south Cork family home at Reagrove, near Minane Bridge, with easy striking distance of Kinsale.

Fri, 30 Sep, 2011

TRADING UP

Tommy Barker and Rose Martin scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2011

Vastly reduced cliff-set cluster

A YEAR after their launch at prices from €750,000 to €950,000, the remaining four houses in Ballycotton’s Blueport development have vastly reduced prices.

Sat, 04 Jul, 2009

Train your thoughts on Redwood, it just might suit your lofty ambitions

WHEN the Broomfield estate in Midleton was first conceived, it was predicated on the arrival of a commuter rail service, on a reopened line from Cork city to Midleton.

Sat, 18 Apr, 2009