While the market awaits the imminent relaunch of a handful of high-end homes at the Earls Well, Waterfall development, a former showhouse in the developers’ Fleming Construction’s original and adjacent Heatherfield scheme is on offer.

Six housing estates have been included in the list of properties exempted from the property tax despite never featuring in any official government list of unfinished developments.

A SYMBOL of better times, Heatherfield will remain the quality house building calling card of troubled Fleming Construction: the collapsed entity now reportedly has debts of around €1.8 billion, well over the initial €1 billion sum widely referred to since ACC Bank first inched the rug out from under the group in 2009.

WHILE houses aimed at first-time buyers are the main movers in this current market, the upper echelon isn’t entirely dead – if there’s value, or rarity, then there’s potential buyers.

Tommy Barker says Earls Well properties have the mark of quality

BUYERS, be brave – you’ll be the real winners at Waterfall’s Earls Well development – getting the best new homes, bar none, built in Cork (if not all of Munster) in decades. And, you’re being offered them for a bargain, value for money price.