With its extra-spacious accommodation, highly efficient A energy rating, and stylish modern appearance, No 14 Lisheen Woods in Ovens does indeed appear to be the perfect family home that selling agent Sherry FitzGerald says it is.

Trish Dromey ACRES in Dripsey has space and comfort enough to lure city buyers — or Ballincollig ones — to the countryside. For a guide of €425,000, the 2008-built dormer bungalow offers over 2,400sq ft of accommodation, which includes three sitting rooms and five bedrooms in addition to a site of almost half an acre.

My home by the Lee — now the song “Beautiful City” mightn’t have topped the charts for quite some time but it would surely be on your lips each time you hit the road home to “Neidín”.

Expansive Waterfall home was built in the 1970s for a family whose children have now grown, and flown says Tommy Barker.

This Ballincollig home is immaculately finished, and includes a large attic conversion, says Tommy Barker

Having worked as an estate agent in the vast expanse of Texas, there was no way the woman of this house was ever going to build small, or put up with pokey rooms, when she returned to her native Cork, writes Tommy Barker. 

Every square foot of this ideal family home is oozing comfort and style, writes Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker says although a few decades old, detached Red Gables is well-sized and well-kept

Billed as a ‘redesigned home’ is 81 Leslies Arch, in the Old Quarter section of O’Flynn Construction’s Ballincollig Town Centre, and as viewers today at an 11am open viewing might see, it’s all been freshened up to be a walk-in job for new occupants.

STRAWBERRY Fields are forever — or, at least, the memory of them can be. Up for sale in the Blarney/Waterloo area is Carrigdara, a mid-1990s build at a spot called Knocknasuff, and it stands on productive gardens of half an acre.

A SMOKING-hot renovation job, under a seamed copper-clad roof, has been done to this Aglish, Farran, family home of distinction, and which has risen up from once-humble estate cottage roots.

The O’Flynn Group this weekend launches a brand new development of 144 new-builds. 

IT’S quite possible to guess from the colourfully landscaped outside front yard, but No 82 Coopers Grange is not your standard townhouse.

It may not quite live up to its name — where are the greens? — but this home shines, says Tommy Barker.

Most of the homes at Limeworth — whether self-build or otherwise — have deserved their ‘luxury’ description, writes Tommy Barker.

It’s more sweetness and light, than briars, at the family home No 1, 1 Sweetbriar Lane, just at the very city end of the road into Ballincollig from the Poulevone Roundabout.

Trish Dromey says a former showhouse in this Ballincollig estate has been well-maintained by one careful owner since its first exposure.

An ‘exercise station’ in the garden is just one of the bespoke features of this star home in Ballincollig, says Tommy Barker.

Unless you are up with the lark and reading this in the dawning light, you might have to rush to the first open viewings of 52 Leslies Arch: This three-storey mid-terrace townhouse is an open book today, on view at 10.45am, for a half-hour window only.

There’s almost grazing for a pet pony or two to be had at the Ballincollig suburban home at 69, Old Court, thanks to its setting at the end of a cul de sac.

Ovens is always hot to trot, and No 2 could well get a family trading up out of nearby Ballincollig.

SOMETIMES, you have to go backwards to go forwards and in the case of Emoh Ruo the hint is in the name— it’s ‘our home’ in reverse. 

Dormer property could be a perfect starter home, says Trish Dromey.

Do not judge 42 Waltham Abbey by its facade — this is a home that opens out like a Tardis, as soon as you get through the mid-terrace property’s front door.

BACK on the market, after a change of selling agent and a modest-enough price drop, is the family home called Shelby, out west of Cork city and Ballincollig, at Farran.

Tommy Barker on a home that has undergone a dramatic transformation in a few short months.

Four-bed is 10 minutes from Cork suburb of Ballincollig on 0.8 of an acre, says Tommy Barker.

Situated in the Old Quarter in Ballincollig, this smart two-bedroom townhouse is of a type that’s in demand right now, says Trish Dromey.

THE owners of 30 Berryfield “have done the Dermot Bannon-sort of extension behind, great space with lots of glass and light”, says Sherry FitzGerald auctioneer Norma Healy.