WORTH ‘more dead than alive’ may sum up the Rochestown Road family home of a man in the building trades profession.

A SITE for a large 3,000 sq ft one-off house, with planning already in place, has come up just along Cork’s Rochestown Road.

BACK in 2006 a house at Kilbrody, in the Mount Oval Village estate hit the market at €470,000. This week a new entrant in the Rochestown, Cork, scheme is on the market at €475,000. Not bad for buyers.

THE brother and sister of a deceased nine-year-old boy, who became a “walking fireball” after an accident at a construction site, have been awarded €100,000 in compensation.

Tommy Barker is given a tour around the Courtyard, an architectural delight, completed to the highest of standards in material and style.

A NEARLY new house at 122 Kilbrody, Mount Oval Village is on offer at €460,000 through Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald.

YOU often get more bang for your buck buying into older estates, especially when new developments are steam-rolling along nearby, and a case in point is 19 Upper Kensington in Cork city’s Clarke’s Hill.

WITH literally thousands of smaller houses on its doorstep and their owners in the possible trading-up market locally, there’ll be active interest in Carrlawn.

LITTLE and large home options are on the go on Cork’s Rochestown Road, aimed at two diverse ends of the upwardly mobile buying market.

THE owners of 4, Monswood in Cork rolled out the red carpet when they decided on the finishing specification on this large family home. In fact, they rolled the carpet idea right out the door, and finished the place instead upstairs and down with wood floors.

THE parents of a nine-year-old boy who died in a construction site explosion said yesterday that nothing could be done to bring their boy back.

A boy playing on a building site lost his life after a barrel of dangerous material caught fire and exploded and today a firm pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches and was fined €200,000.