FOR SALE: Bachelor Pad, one careful owner for the past 88 years.

Tommy Barker says life can be good and No 10 can get full marks after some gentle tweaks at this terrace off the Old Blackrock Road.

Rockboro Avenue’s Annville has been fully rebuilt from the ground up and was then extended, finds Tommy Barker.

Old Blackrock Road refurbed home is in walk-in condition, and is an easy walk to all of Cork city centre’s services and amenities too, says Tommy Barker.

Ardnagrena is a large but graceful gem which has been well maintained and sensitively updated, writes Tommy Barker.

Apartments are well on the way back price-wise in Cork, with post-slump demand and values driven by location, most of all.

John Hayes didn’t experience much of the build-up to the 2014 county final... and quite the build-up there was, too, given Carbery Rangers hadn’t been involved in the showpiece event of Cork football for 108 years.

Many eyes have been trained recently on the grounds of this new-to-market large family home, Rockville, at the very city end of the Boreenmanna Road, not much more than 500 metres from Cork’s City Hall.

Inis is an architect-led, beautifully redesigned, walk-in condition, detached property at the city end of Cork’s popular Blackrock Road.

Who says you have to live in the country to enjoy the wonders of nature?

Blackrock Road, Cork city €525,000

Victoria Avenue, Cork Cost: €275,000

Size: 78 sq m (840 sq ft)

Size: 1,100/950 sq ft

Sq m: 110 (1,175 sq ft)

SET on a hidden site, just before the start of Cork’s Blackrock Road, is Applewood — a dormer with a difference.

Location: Victoria Avenue

Sq m: 93 (1,000 sq ft)

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

This period-era home just needs a lick of paint because it ticks all the basics, writes Tommy Barker

A house in a great location has been gutted and transformed by an out-of town buyer and is now ready for the market, writes Tommy Barker

This terrace has the city on its doorstep, plus plenty of room and loads of character, writes Tommy Barker

IF you can’t afford this week’s stunning Cover Story property inside this issue — perhaps none too surprising as it’s priced at €2.2m — then maybe our modest ‘House of the Week, at less than just 10% of the cost, might fit the bill and budget.

Sundays Well, Cork €349,000

The Irish immigrants who settled in Syracuse, New York’s Tipperary Hill and named it after the county they’d left behind were a notoriously sentimental crowd.

No 5 Fitzgerald Place comes at an affordable price and also has some privacy, Tommy Barker reports

A Spaniard who had 21 staples inserted in a head wound after a vicious and unprovoked attack by a gang of youths in Cork has said he has no intention of leaving this country.

The Spanish man brutally beaten with a golf club in Cork City was reunited with his young son yesterday after being released from hospital.

Investigations are ongoing after a Spanish man was attacked with a golf club in Cork city when he refused to hand over cigarettes or his mobile phone to a gang of youths.

IT’S QUIET up Rockboro Avenue way — the residents like it this way, and over-zealous car clampers seem to like to keep it that way too.

NEEDING lots of doing up, but priced to reflect that fact, is the mid-terraced Victorian home at No 4, Sorrento Villas on Cork city’s Old Blackrock Road.

MY GRANDFATHER, Pat Harris, spoke proudly of marching to Macroom on Easter Monday, 1916, and of being arrested with Terence MacSwiney on August 12, 1920, at a meeting of the officers of Cork No 1 Brigade in Cork’s City Hall. But he never spoke about what the First Cork Brigade did in the two years that followed.

ALREADY extended to the back, the handily-placed 5 Rochelle Park is a walk-in job for a new owner. They can even walk into the heart of Cork city from here, without breaking too much sweat.

A MAN has been arrested and questioned by gardaí about what they believe was a sexually motivated assault on a woman in Cork city centre earlier this week.

ROCHELLE COURT, on Cork’s Old Blackrock Road, had a long and protracted gestation.

SMALL parcel, but great goods - the city cottage Ivyleaf is a little bit of a head-turner. In fact, thanks to its high ceilings inside and its feature exposed beams, you can crane your neck as you turn your head all the way around.

WHILE the media revels in the doom and gloom associated with the recession, let us consider some of the positive consequences that may follow.

THERE are two developments along Cork’s Old Blackrock Road called Rochelle, picking up the name of a former denominational boarding school of that title.

A SHIP’S salvage, from the 1928 stricken White Star liner, The Celtic, is an unusual find in an equally unusual Cork house and property sale.