Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages...

No 45 Lindville, Ballintemple, has a Victorian architectural architectural design right up your street, says Tommy Barker

BALLINTEMPLE locations don’t get much more central than that enjoyed at the charmingly-titled Homelea – facing directly onto the Blackrock Road, it’s in the heart of everything in this southside Cork suburban location, and has been in the same family’s hands for over 50 years.

All 31 upmarket homes are released at once, without phasing or a showhouse, says Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker says new, upmarket schemes west and east of Cork city will spur resales – and gossip.

I see there are huge rows about building flood walls around Cork City Centre. Do you know if these walls will stop the lower orders from fishing in the river? 

One half of these golden pair of exceptional semi-d’s has just come to the market, writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker says Ashdene’s a recultivated period beauty.

Tommy Barker gets lost in a large suburban house with a beautiful garden, carports, and oh, and the house isn’t bad either.

 

Victorian style houses in the upmarket Lindville development in Blackrock continue to be among the most sought after trade-ups in Cork city.

Blackrock, Cork €625,000

Ballintemple, Cork €640,000

Location: Blackrock Road, Cork

VINTAGE clothing has come of age. Something, perhaps, to do with the fact that all previously-loved clothes have a back story.

A TRUE litmus test of who’s left with an appetite to build new houses, on one of Cork city’s best residential sites, is on the cards for early in 2013.

Tommy Barker is taken by Coosheen’s site and garden

The top-class homes at Ashley have it all — and at slashed prices too, writes Tommy Barker

Knocknacurra on the upmarket Blackrock Road is twice its original size and stylishly refitted, says Tommy Barker.

THE family of a respected businessman who died suddenly during his recovery from depression has urged Irish doctors to conduct more research into anti-depressants.

“THE classiest semi-d in town,” says the selling agent of Greenways, a period, early 1900s home on one of the best stretches of Cork’s Blackrock Road, right next to Lindville in Ballintemple.

IF imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Cork’s Lindville houses have been flattered to the eyeballs.

HALF of Cork has watched them being built, in defiance of the economic and housing downturn, tucked into a tight site on Cork’s Rochestown Road.

IT’S the original of the species, is Greenways, a tall and attractive Victorian semi on the Blackrock Road, in front of the Lindville estate, whose houses could be described as a buttery variation on the same theme.

EVER wondered where east meets west? No, it isn’t Istanbul, nor is it some sort of fusion cooking... it’s a pair of semi-ds on Cork’s Rochestown Road — it says so on the name plaques.

GETTING a parental dig-out from the folks to get on to the housing ladder is nothing new — fathers and mothers have been helping out for generations, and some have been wealthy enough to give the equivalent of a property inheritance even before they die.

YOU report a Cork city councillor as saying (August 11) that Aer Lingus’s new 2008 Cork-Heathrow schedule is good for investors.

‘TWO for the price of one’ is the pitch of auctioneer, David Busteed for this three-storey house in Bandon’s Canon’s Wood estate.

WHAT they lack in design finesse from the front, the big family homes in Cork’s Janeville make up for in sheer property punch.

PLANS by the land-owner for a further five houses in the upmarket Lindville development, on Blackrock Road in Ballintemple, Cork, to be built on a designated green area, have recently been shot down by Cork City Council.

There are plenty of strokes left in the Irish property market, but the house Rydal pulls some of the best — a cracking Cork location, detached house status, and enough room in its grounds for a Big Brother-like pool.

TREMENDOUS gardens says the brochure and you can’t argue with the description of this corner site, especially as it’s plonked on the corner of the Blackrock Road and Crab Lane.

DESPITE the €1.2 million price tag, there’ll be a queue to the door of no 4, and the price guide is likely to go out the window in just as quick a fashion.

THESE Cannon’s Wood houses made a bold statement when they went up in Bandon over three years ago.

WOULD someone buy two adjoining Well Road houses just for the sake of a decent-sized site for one new home - even if it cost them €1 million?

Seán O’Riordan

HOT on the heels of the sale of 40, Lindville, (agreed at around €800,000), comes 46, Lindville, its neighbour and a near-identical property on Cork’s Blackrock road.

NEO-Victorian, with a really high specification and a location on Blackrock Road: it all adds up to the Lindville package.