THERE has been just one house sale so far at Silverlands, in the newish Maryborough Woods estate and that result netted a sale price of €450,000 two years ago through James G Coughlan and Associates.

KIDS love a card game called 52-card pick up — it’s where they get you to agree to play with them, they scatter the cards on the ground and tell you to pick up all 52.

EXTEND, alter or just enjoy — all the options are there at Hollyhill, a 30-year-old bungalow on a half acre site on the edge of Douglas with Hamilton Osborne King.

The architect-designed maturing bungalow on a three-quarter acre site was used as a family business, horticulture, with flowers growing and sold from the property, where a 5,000 sq ft glass house was the practical blooming point.