This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

Size: 190 sq m (2,045 sq ft)

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BISHOPSTOWN, CORK €335,000

SILVERTON may well turn to gold for some fortunate — and bank-funded — buyer, able to rise to the lure of a four-bed detached in the highly rated Bishopstown Avenue.

GIVEN that the agents say they are pricing this property more or less at its site value, given its €495,000 asking price, you’d have to conclude the setting must be a bit special. You’d be right.

IN its heyday, just half a century ago, Kilconor would have been up there with the best of Bishopstown’s new homes.

A BIT on the dated side, but with enough going for it in terms of location to justify lots of upgrades, No 3 Woodleigh is a bit of a banker of a sale, even in a slow market.

THE scalpels will be out in force when the bidding starts on Firdoshi, a big and beguiling family home right on the back door of the Cork University Hospital.

IT mightn’t be the biggest or the brashest house on the Model Farm Road area, but Mount Nephin has got off to a flying start since it hit the market last weekend.

AS a lifelong supporter of the Irish football team, I was totally shocked to read the news that my family will no longer be able to see our home games live on TV.