Number two Shrewsbury Downs is situated in a sought after area and will tick a lot of boxes for those trading up, writes Tommy Barker

The name, Oval Top House, makes it sound like a table... but, as anyone who knows his or her Rochestown in Cork might suspect, this is the real sweet suite of options to dine out on.

A local has emerged as the €2.3m-plus buyer of a Killarney town-centre, modern, retail-based investment property called The Courtyard.

An excellent finish, over three floors with four bedrooms and a contemporary, bright kitchen/family space mark No 6 Southwinds as a family home to view. 

The €4.25m Argos investment, in Cork City centre, facing the Capitol cinema redevelopment site, has been bought by neighbouring developers, Clarendon Properties, with a view to future redevelopment of their Queens Old Castle holding, on the Grand Parade.

Tommy Barker finds a house that ticks the boxes for traders-up and traders-in at Westbury on Beaumont Drive.

FROM the exterior, there’s barely a hint of the quality to be found within the three-storey home at 3 Sunview Terrace — it’s one to view if you want lots of well-finished city home for your euros.

A good, clean three-bed semi-d has come to market at Laurel Avenue, in Carrigaline’s Ballea Woods, via agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing.

Talk about a high-end home - , even if it’s ‘only’ a townhouse. 

A sizeable retail investment in one of Killarney town’s most central modern developments, the Courtyard, has come for sale on behalf of three private investors, offering a c 12% return to a new owner.

Size: 224 sq m (2,400sq ft)

Owners of harbour-view dormer on 4.85 acres did it all, bar flatten the original and build again from scratch, writes Tommy Barker.

FUNDS to invest in Irish companies in 2011 are at their highest level in 30 years.

A tasty City Division J‘A’FC final at Ballinlough yesterday as holders Whites Cross and St Finbarr’s battled to the finish but could not be separated after an entertaining contest that ebbed and flowed.

THERE’s a dearth of second-hand housing stock on Cork city’s western side, says the selling agent for Loretto, a nice, older-style, three-bed semi-d (the end of a terraced trio) on Farranlea Road.

IRELAND will be once again on the outside looking in at a major tournament after Argentina dashed their slim hopes of qualifying for next year’s World Cup with a crushing 4-0 win in Quilmes.

NEIGHBOURING counties Waterford and Wexford were connected by “tragic thoughts and conversation” in recent days following the deaths of six people in the region, a funeral mass heard on Saturday.

CLEVE HILL hasn’t appeared on the radar of most house buyers, but give it a year of so, and that will change.

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

ESB staff and pensioners have helped brighten the lives of the elderly in Cork.

THE family home of the late guitar legend Rory Gallagher sold at a private auction yesterday, beating the winter blues.

Cork 2-11 Kilkenny 2-11

St. Finbarr’s 1-11 O’Donovan Rossa 1-11

CLASSIC elegance that's the look here at Lios Bán on the Model Farm Road, a house in a classic location.

A €10 million new mixed use development has hit the market along the banks of the Blackwater river, in the heart of Fermoy town.

FITZGIBBON CUP champions University of Limerick served notice they will be hard to dethrone in this year’s championship with this gutsy victory over UCC in the Higher Educational SHL final at Kilmallock yesterday.

THE shortage of good second-hand houses is helping to underpin the strong current prices being achieved.