Despite, having just had a notional ‘change of address,’ the owners of Clondoyle, or 5 Browningstown are still on the move from their extended suburban Cork family home.

House price rebound has been strong in Cork inner suburbs in the years since the slump, as home hunters seemingly favour city accessibility and commutability over youthful age, good BER’s, and techie trimmings.

Tommy Barker says ‘Glencree’ in mature suburban Browningstown has been tastefully — and thoroughly — renovated and upgraded.

You just don’t get a handle on just what sort of Hettyfield home Corrin is from the outside. 

Glencorran, in Douglas, is now marked way down in, as it’s back, on a smaller site, says Tommy Barker.

Rose Martin visits a leafy south Cork City suburb where an arts and crafts-style house hits the market early for the autumn pick-up.

DOUGLAS, CORK €395,000

Rose Cottage, Hettyfield, Douglas guides at €420,000.

A BIG, upgraded house, in a strong residential location, matched with a price drop and pitching in to a locality where a few big sales have been secured – that’s the background to Glen House’s 2010 sale hopes.

WHEN Danescourt sells, it will be one of the best-value deals in years on its fairly posh residential row. A million euro or so, give or take, was a standard-enough market entry point for similar, mid-sized, detached homes in Cork’s Hettyfield, off the Well Road, in Douglas, a top-notch residential address down several decades.

NOT only can you make your own mark on this Hettyfield, detached Douglas home, you also get the chance to name it.

LAST year, Glen House came up for sale, selling swiftly for about €1.7 million. Now, come another September it is for sale again, as an even better contemporised offering, priced at €2 million-plus, glistening, pristine in shades of white, further extended.

SALES in the Paddocks are getting through, slowly, but getting surer.

HETTYFIELD has a ring to it; not only is it a catchy name, but it’s also, in the auctioneering lexicon, one of the most ‘desirable’ and ‘sought after’ estates in the southern suburbs of Cork city.

THE house name, Greenhills, is in hindsight a bit of a pointer.

THE house name, Greenhills, is in hindsight a bit of a pointer.

RUMOURS abound that a house which cost in the region of €1.3 million in Hettyfield, Douglas this year is to be knocked and rebuilt. It had a guide price of €850,000 through Peter Cave of HOK.

TAKE the €950,000 guide price with a grain of estuary salt water — this five-bedroom home on Cork’s Well Road is going to soar past €1m.

FIRST bun-fight of the year for a detached home in the Douglas suburb of Cork can be expected for Ashton, a house with a lot going for it - especially a Hettyfield address.

THE BOARDS have gone up and already there are heavy bookings to view Shalimar, a four-bedroomed, detached house in Hettyfield, Douglas.

HOUSE hunters looking to get into the upper end of the market in Cork have had their thoughts turned to suburban Douglas, as much by virtue of the selection of good second-hand stock as by the quality of location.

CITY convenience or county and coastal cachet?