This terraced cottage at 109 Dillon’s Cross may could possibly be both the most affordable and the smallest property on the market in the Cork city area. 

Talk about putting the WOW! into the WAW, Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.

Pretty much everything has to be done to this three-bedroomed bungalow – but the location will drive interest, nonetheless.

There’s only 100 yards or so between two new-to-market offers with agent Timothy Sullivan, and only €25,000 in their prices difference, but they are utterly different buys and markets.

Victorian style houses in the upmarket Lindville development in Blackrock continue to be among the most sought after trade-ups in Cork city.

Bruce Willis is to star in 'Extraction'.

The selling agents of 5, Sunnyside, Belmont, don’t lie when they describe the back garden of this mid-terrace Ballinlough home as low maintenance: a rake of the gravel every few months is probably about all it needs right now.

Blackrock, Cork €625,000

Size: 98sq m (1050sq ft)

Location: Size: Sq m 185 (2,000 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 235 (2,525 sq m)

City buyers cutting cloth to their financial means, stressing location over size Tommy Barker reports.

MT CONGREVE, WATERFORD €495,000

Expect a throng of viewers and a burst of interest in No 1, Belmont Place — because it deserves it.

THERE’S great tranquillity in the gardens of Ainrush, a bungalow built 25 years ago in the grounds of a faux-Tudor home called Kedges on Cork’s Douglas Rd.

THERE’S an embracing extension added to the back of 6 Monswood — it projects out on either side of the house’s back like outstretched arms, all ready to hug you.

RATHCOURSEY, EAST CORK €295,000

Tibetans are setting themselves on fire to demonstrate against Chinese rule, write Tim Sullivan and Gillian Wong

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

Tommy Barker rounds up some of the movers and shakers in an otherwise depressed year on the domestic property front

QUIRKY, not so petite as you’d think, and definitely one to look around — that’s auctioneer Tim Sullivan’s verdict on The Cottage, a slice of country-style living in the heart of Cork’s old suburbs.

THERE are only three of these modest, dormer bungalows at Melrose, off Cork’s Boreenmanna Road, and one is just up for sale.

AN honesty in its simple presentation, a west-facing back garden, and a setting just by the start of Menloe Gardens, off Cork city’s Blackrock Road, are key attributes of Coolavin.

DESCRIBED as a mews-style home — rather than an apartment — 27, Fort Hill, Moneygourney, outside Douglas, Cork is a two-bedroom home.

A DEAD-end doesn’t really sound like an appealing place in which to live — but the approximate French translation, cul de sac, has a certain residential desirability ring to it.

WITH an address like Cork’s Crab Lane, can you afford to do anything by halves?

WHAT you see won’t necessarily be what you get, with a couple of Cork bungalows up for sale in prized locations.

FACING on to Magazine Road in Cork city and ideally placed for UCC, this five-bedroom house is a good prospect for owner occupiers, or investors.

Tommy Barker says Tanglewood is a lot bigger than it looks.

Rose Martin is charmed by a house on Wellington Terrace in Cork

IF house roofs can be compared to hats, then the crowning glory on the eight-only detached houses at Brickfields look closest to skull caps.

IT is a funny old market, when buyers are prepared to pay more for less, but that’s what happens sometimes at the e1 million and more mark.

TREMENDOUS gardens says the brochure and you can’t argue with the description of this corner site, especially as it’s plonked on the corner of the Blackrock Road and Crab Lane.

NUMBER 28, Avondale Park, in Ballintemple, in Cork’s south-side, is a semi-detached bungalow priced at €345,000.

DEFENDING champions UCC Demons will face Roma St. Vincent’s in the first semi-final of the NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague at The Mardyke Arena next Saturday afternoon while Merry Monk Ballina will contest the other place in the final with Limerick Lions.

GLENEAGLE LAKERS recorded a sensational second successive victory over the table toppers and defending champions, UCC Demons (105-90) in another thrilling NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague clash in Killarney on Saturday.

ESTATE agent Tim Sullivan will have his hands full on viewings at Brickfields.

With just five weeks left in the regular season, all teams have their eyes firmly fixed on capturing a coveted play-off spot in the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague quarter-finals (to take place on March 18 and 19).

FANCY joining the village people, in a city suburb?

Tommy Barker says this suburban home hints at loads of goodies inside.

THERE were queues of buyers for the Castlelake development, Carrigtwohill, when it was first launched two years ago.