Sales at the Elden development in Cork’s Maryborough Hill have been chugging along nicely for developers O’Flynn Construction in the past year or two, across the board, from houses to apartments, with one of the latter, a penthouse, making €630,000 in 2014.

IT’S eight years now since the scheme of contemporary-styled houses at Cork’s Elden got launched — and they still look crisp and modern.

A great double site is a bonus with this adaptable bungalow home, with its double-digit address, in Cork’s outer suburban Maryborough Hill, above Douglas.

Size: Sq m 212 (2,290 sq ft)

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

Location: Maryborough Hill, Douglas

At Bayview House Tommy Barker finds a harbour hillside property that brightly lives up to promise of the site’s prospect — exceptional.

IRONIC, really — some of the country’s best apartments, finally built with enough space, storage and services to support long-term use and designed to suit owner occupiers and what happens? The property market dies, and first to go is the apartment buying sector.

HOVERING above the trees on Cork’s Maryborough Hill is the just-launching apartment scheme Elden — including five upmarket penthouses looking down on centuries’ old woodland and the Lee estuary.

Tommy Barker says Orchard House’s every detail, from the porch’s gothic-shaped windows and fascias inwards has been carefully thought through.

ONE of the country’s largest development firms has been given the equivalent of a €1.7 million ‘cash back’ windfall thanks to An Bord Pleanála.

MAJOR planning applications for Cork’s premium residential addresses have been lodged within the last few weeks.