University College Cork is set to transform a landmark former bank into a flagship business school hub after the city last night agreed to sell the building to the college.

Tucked away towards the back of Westbury, off Sarsfield Road in Cork’s Wilton is St Catherine, or No 1 Westbury Crescent.

A local authority has defended its decision to place, on the open market, a former bank building it acquired almost two years ago.

Ideas are being sought from the open market to help breathe new life into a city-owned historic former bank building.

Tommy Barker sizes up two semis of differing sizes in the same location near Douglas village.

Douglas Road, Cork

No 1 Westway is going to be easy to maintain, and the gardens are fringed by high walls for privacy. Tommy Barker takes a look at this modern cottage at Grange Manor, Ovens.

Well done, Cork City Council, in purchasing the former Cork Savings Bank H/Q, at No 1 Lapps Quay.

Size: 155 sq m (1,650 sq ft)

CORK City’s oldest bank building, and one of its very finest architectural statements, is a New Year sale offer at €1.2 million.

This very attractive three-bed house, in good condition, in a good area could tick a lot of boxes for first time buyers or even trader-uppers. Rose Martin reports

Affordable period property has guide price of €120,000, Tommy Barker reports

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around Cork city and county

Cronody is a design timepiece on a large site with views of Monkstown bay, says Rose Martin.

BILLED as “the closest family home in Cork city to the Statue with front and rear gardens” is Clyda, the first house seen on entering Cork’s Sidney Park.

IT’s all about the aspect at No 1 The Lawn, Matthew Hill, one of Ruden Homes’ detached houses at Lehenamore, Co Cork.

A NEW access lane puts 1, Wood Hill Villas on a more manageable footing – and that’s to its benefit, because builders will surely need to get to it.

THE four-bedroom semi-detached home, No 1 Shanakiel Park on Cork city’s northside has a good bit of space on offer.

THERE are three-bed semis, and three-bed semis – and within that broad spectrum, No 1 Adelaide Place, Cork is in a niche of its own.

WHEN the Broomfield estate in Midleton was first conceived, it was predicated on the arrival of a commuter rail service, on a reopened line from Cork city to Midleton.

JUST €5,000 and a few differences separates these two bungalow buys in Tower, near Blarney, Co Cork.

REBRANDED as the gateway to West Cork, Bandon has been a garrison town for most of its history, which dates to 1604.

ROOMS with a cityscape view add extra character to a Georgian home on the northside of Cork city.