Great location makes No 112 Elm Park ideal for those who want to update property

Three-bed Midleton townhouse open to offers of €168,000, Tommy Barker reports.

YEARS of trawling around old houses makes one immune to mould, damp and peeling wallpaper.

No 11 An Goirtin is in showhouse standard.

A smart, stone-faced second or primary home, ready to move into.

THERE’S already a bit of a hunt on at Cork’s Orion — a compact cottage called after a mighty stellar constellation, the Orion Nebula and the discernible shape (seen by telescope) of a hunter’s sword.

A THREE to four-bed house near Cork’s UCC at Wycherley Place promises to make financial sense for those who might even have just scraped a low D in pass maths, reckons estate agent Peter Skuse of Cahalane Skuse.

A REAL Cork sort of house, in a Cork setting — that’s Ard Naoimh Joseph, on the city’s Redemption Road.

EASTER’S here, and next come thoughts of summer..and summer homes. “It’s a sure sign the summer is on the way, when the coastal area in west Cork starts to get ready for the season, and we’ve already seen stirrings in the past week,” says auctioneer, Peter Skuse, of Cahalane Skuse.

FROM flat irons to flats — estate agent Peter Skuse throws a shape on stories as well as properties.

THIS long cottage at 8 Huggardsland, Glasheen Road, Cork, is a country cottage in the city.

IT’S TIME to put local authority loans back on buyers’ radar.

A NEW national school now beckons for the hinterland around Foxwood in Cork’s Rochestown — about a decade after builders O’Brien and O’Flynn were made set aside land for one.

IT’S the Killiney of Cork, says Peter Skuse of Cork’s Blackrock suburb, and its Castle Road water-view houses.

EAGLE Valley is always a good buy because of its location close to Cork University Hospital and the South Ring Road.

The €315,000 price tag on 122 Elm Park makes it an ideal starter home.

WELL, there’s one at least comes along each spring with impeccable timing. This time no 30 Daffodil Fields is the first four-bed detached to burst onto the selling season, in tune with nature’s equivalent, hosts of golden daffodils.

PARKGATE, in the southern suburbs of Cork city, set the standards for modern house design when it was built, according to Peter Skuse of Cahalane Skuse.

YOU won’t need marbles in your mouth to hit the right tone at St Anne’s, a Marble Hall Park home located just at the start of the Douglas and Ballinlough roads in Cork city.

IF you were vague about Haig Gardens, here’s a chance to remedy the situation. Houses in this enclave, close to Cork city centre, rarely come up for sale.

THE uplift in property values in Ballincollig west of Cork city continues, thanks to the new bypass, shortage of new stock in Bishopstown and the new town centre.

A TOWNHOUSE in Cork’s Eagle Valley is for sale, with the vendor departing after a few years of habitation.

"IT'S a bloody nice house, whoever gets it will be very happy with it," says estate agent Peter Skuse, one of a selling breed with a bit of soul for the older stock.

THE babies, and children, are back with a bang in regentrified Wellington Road and St Luke’s Cross in Cork. The vendors of 6 York Terrace have been 17 years in situ, and remark on the changes of the last few years.

THERE’S a new building boom by Broadale, on Cork’s Maryborough Hill - but nothing yet to buy for months in the O’Brien and O’Flynn residential development.

Tommy Barker reports on a prime property in city’s western suburbs.

THE completion of the new maternity wing at CUH is seeing an uplift in property prices in the surrounding area, says estate agent Peter Skuse, and demand for rental accommodation is always strong because of the proximity of the hospital.

LIKE the Britvic drink, 55 Seven Oaks in Frankfield gives a little bit extra.

TWO beds or three? Different sized house options are on the go at a Cork development where a €70,000 price differential separates a compact two-bed or a larger three-bed mews-style accommodation.

HOUSE or site? That’s the question here at Sandymount on School Avenue in Glasheen, Cork.

VIEWS are the thing here at 40 Fernwood Crescent, Lehenaghmore, Cork city, is spread out as far as the eye can see and the twinkling nights are an ever-changing backdrop.

VERY discreet and tucked away off the Model Farm Road, Highfield Lawn is not just the entrance driveway to the million-euro enclave, Court Cairn, but a desirable residential location in its own right.

A BANKER — these Elm Park houses will always appreciate, says selling agent, Peter Skuse, because of their Wilton, Cork location.

ROSEWOOD estate, built by Bradley Brothers in the seventies, is recognised as a quality build, says auctioneer, Peter Skuse of Cahalane and Skuse, who’s selling number 85 there.

CAUGHT in mid-thought looking at the river and boating view from 2, Glenbrook Villas in Cork harbour, estate agent Peter Skuse was greeted by a neighbour with the salutation “not for the faint-hearted.”

THE lands that formed part of the old St Joseph's Monastery in Blarney St in Cork are slowly being covered by houses and beginning to form one of the most unusual integrated developments in the city, despite the fact that planning permission was given before the implementation of Part V of the Planning Act 2000.

WITH the tide at low ebb for residential rental properties, with rents dropping and tenants in short supply and able to pick and choose, the location of investment properties is about to take centre stage in urban areas.

THE best of goods come in small parcels, they say.

INNER city properties like this one at number 3, Greenmount Villas are very popular choices for first-time buyers and investors. For the first-time buyer, the 10-minute walk to work and the relatively low entry level is the attraction, plus, terraced houses like this in the city are seen as ideal doer-uppers.