Sharing the same name as a popular wine brand, Midleton’s new homes scheme called Blossomhill could be said to have come from Russia, with love.

Kerry football legend Pat Spillane has ‘red-carded’ the Mackinnon recommendations for a major boundary extension of Cork City, but said the county council will have to cede more territory than it’s currently offering.

The first draft of an enlarged Cork City to drive the region’s growth for the next half century should emerge within weeks.

Securing a significant extension of Cork’s city boundary is now of national importance, a city councillor warned last night as they rejected a land offer from the county.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has remained tight-lipped on a surprise offer from Cork County Council to cede land to the city.

Data justifying the scale of the proposed Cork City boundary extension has emerged ahead of a crunch meeting on an alternative boundary suggestion.

Cork County Council would immediately relinquish commercial rates and local property tax (LPT) worth in excess of €16m per year if its revised plan for the city council boundary extension is accepted by the Implementation Oversight Group.

A Dundalk firm whose directors are linked to major Northern Ireland and UK developers McAleer & Rushe has emerged as the buyer of the Good Shepherd Convent in Sunday’s Well, above Cork city. Moneda Development was set up earlier this year, and directors include Eamonn Laverty and James Higgins of McAleer & Rushe, who specialise in design and build, asset management, construction and multi-use projects.

This home was designed for the current owner by South Mall architect Bill Mullins and was built in 2004 by Crowley Homes of Midleton.

An excellent finish, over three floors with four bedrooms and a contemporary, bright kitchen/family space mark No 6 Southwinds as a family home to view. 

Three development sites worth up to €30m have been put for sale in Cork City and suburbs.

Cork is set to get a €50m slice of social housing funding announced by the Government yesterday.

Plans for a development of more than 30 new homes in the southside suburbs of Cork have been lodged.

There’s a move back to Irish shores from families who weathered the economic and employment storms abroad, in strong bases like London.

Jimmy Crowley’s book on the songs of Cork is the latest instalment in his longterm love affair with the culture of his hometown, writes Dan Buckley

A house building site of 1.8 acres, with full planning for 15 new homes and with 12 of them started, is for sale on behalf of a receiver, guiding at €875,000

Builders are back in business in cities like Dublin and Cork in the bid to get sites for a house-hungry market — and now an outer suburban site comes to market in Cork to test appetites for something just a bit further out.

FOUR Cork businessmen have had judgment orders totalling more than €236 million entered against them to date in favour of three banks arising mainly from unpaid property loans.

GO up Donnybrook Hill, turn right and you enter another world. A pastoral paradise that appears miles away from the city’s throng.

A NEW green route walking path, through woods and along the glenside of the Donnybrook stream, will link the house scheme The Vicarage with the very heart of Douglas village in Cork, and, almost coincidentally, make it an easy stroll to the suburban village’s two churches. And schools. And shops, bars and everything else.

ARCHITECT-designed in the 1970s, Redwood is a detached family home of 2,000 sq ft, on a 0.8 acre site, and with scope galore.

CHRISTMAS has come early for a leading Cork GAA club after a deal with property developers secured four new pitches and top-class facilities.

THE founder of the Blackrock Clinic is behind a consortium planning to build a multi-million euro private hospital in Cork.

THE tried and tested three-bed semi is the barometer of the real property market - and going on demand the evidence is of a still healthy market.

COUNCIL officials in Cork are concerned that the public isn’t aware of the exceptional value that their affordable housing schemes represent.

“ONCE in a blue moon opportunity to buy” gushed the sales brochure for Fairview — so, hey, here’s another blue moon.