WAY back at the height of our property intoxication, four-bed semi-ds in the southern Cork city suburb of Douglas were making €500,00-€600,000 each.

THE omens appear good for a sale of this Bishopstown, Cork semi-d, called Josslyn – its selling agent sold the house next door late in 2009, for around €430,000, and also nailed one of the year’s very few €1m-plus deals for a larger home, on an acre site, right around the corner.

THERE are horses for courses — and then there are houses for sites.

THERE are not many quality homes for €500,000 within a few minutes walk of Douglas village, in Cork city - so this apartment, by the local tennis club, should achieve its €525,000 guide price.

THE nine members of a local council will decide next Tuesday whether to re-zone a site, allowing a hotel and housing development to proceed.

THERE'LL be a new colonising rush at 6, Regency Close - a suburban house with a strong colonial flavour.

THERE’S only a few dozen houses in the Cork suburban development Berkeley - set in off Temple Vale near Beaumont, which sets it between the prosperous suburbs of Blackrock and Douglas.