Greenfield sites hardly come any better, or beguiling, than this. Seven acres of ‘farm’ land, recently shorn of its annual crop of maize, between the two main Douglas Roads in suburban Cork, within a walk of the city centre have just come up for sale as a truly prime development opportunity.

Two young men whose car was almost sliced in half, when it struck a pole in Cork city, are lucky to be alive.

Coming up on its 90th birthday next year is this family home, in three generations of ownership and only now for sale for the first time ever.

Trish Dromey says that renovating this property on the Douglas Road might be too much effort and starting again from scratch is likely.

Already gone over its price guide and under swift offer at €715,000 is Sunview, one of the most surprising house property packages to come to the open market in Cork for a while.

THERE’s a zoning game of patience to be played out on a former Cork suburban pitch and putt course, with the arrival of a prime land parcel, detached house and old stone outbuildings on the South Douglas Road.

This do-er up house is in a much sought-after location at price affordable for some first-time buyers, says Trish Dromey.

A Douglas premises with a 60-plus year association with the motor and retail trade has space inside and outside available to let, and all with copious amounts of free parking.

The mid-1900s, semi-detached family home, Cnoc Muire, is in need of updating, but it has so much going for it.

Tommy Barker visits a suburban Cork city semi-d that’s had a thorough makeover both inside and out.

You’d nearly have to search out the half dozen homes in Cork’s Willow Dale, a niche of three sets of semi-ds, off the Cross Douglas Road.

A HEATWAVE was promised for this week - but, as much heat will be generated by a flurry of auction action. 

THERE seems to be an extra bit of width to the four-bed family home called Soubirous, on Cork’s South Douglas Road, most likely called after a 19th century French Christian mystic and visionary at Lourdes.

It’s been a while since a house in Cork’s Knockrea or Woolhara Parks have come to market - certainly not since the upper end of the market began its climb back out of the doldrums of the last seven years.

And the last shall be first? The highest numbered house in Baltimore Lawn, No 20, is the first one you meet on the way into this niche, cul de sac park off Cork city’s Douglas Road.

Gardaí in Cork have recovered the weapon which they believe was used in the stabbing of a businessman who disturbed a burglar in his home.

Gardaí investigating an aggravated burglary at the home of a pensioner in Cork are appealing for witnesses.

A 68-year-old man was being treated for a stab wound in hospital last night after being attacked by a burglar who had broken into his home in the Cork suburb of Douglas.

Gardaí are investigating an aggravated burglary in Cork this afternoon, during which a pensioner was assaulted and stabbed.

Sq m 184 (2,000sq ft)

Size: 110 sqm (1,190 sq ft)

A walk-in job with very good interiors, this Cork suburban semi is likely to top €425,000, writes Tommy Barker.

A RECENTLY let, double-tenanted building on Cork’s suburban Douglas Road, by St Finbarr’s Hospital, is up for sale as an investment, for €1.5m.

Sq m: 84 (900 sq ft)

YOU know of the fairly hackeneyed property expression ‘no expense spared?’ Well, here’s the house that gives fresh currency to the phrase.

THERE’S going to be serious viewing interest in the Edwardian semi-d called Lynton, going by the early signs — phonecalls from the moment a sale board went up, as well as the impact of a very similar house sale a few doors away earlier this year.

MOVING out is going to be hard enough, parting and packing up being such sweet sorrows, and as for decluttering, well ... it’s not going to really make much of a difference, is it?

Four-bed semi is located in a small city development. Tommy Barker reports

Mauraville, mid-1900s three-bed semi-detached on the edge of Loretto estate, off Cross Douglas Road.

IT was a four-bed, but then the owners of number 3 Willowdale in Douglas, Cork decided to make a larger, master suite for themselves and lost a bedroom in the process.

BUILT as a pair of matching semi-ds back in 1904 by the Cork Scott family of stevedores, this handsome red-brick Douglas duo catalogue a slice of suburban history in their century-plus of fine standing.

THERE are horses for courses — and then there are houses for sites.

TUCKED away in a quiet suburban spot is 3 Woodgrove, a mid-1900s three-bed semi-detached property just off the Cross Douglas Road in Cork city.

THE word ‘enclave’ well describes the setting of Willow Court, off Cork’s Cross Douglas Road, and the naming after the willow tree is also appropriate, as large spreading and billowing willow trees stand sentinel at its entrance.

THE army may come to the rescue of one of the country’s biggest builders and developers, Fleming Construction.

NUMBER 2 Willow Court, Cross Douglas Road, fills a number of criteria: it’s perfect for downsizers or first-timers, it’s a walk to town and it’s in a good area.

THE passing of time — a half-century or so — has done no disservice to Cabo de Vela, a Douglas semi with a lot in its favour.

THERE are two for the choosing in one of the most convenient and established areas in Cork city — the Cross Douglas Road.

GLENCREE, a three-bed semi in the cul de sac of Woodgrove on the south side of Cork city has already gone over its €465,000 asking price to bids of €500,000.

Gardaí in Cork have seized drugs worth more than €150,000 during two separate searches in the city.