Rosenheim & Windermere

Brian Lalor has survived by pursuing his interests as a printmaker, illustrator and author, says Colette Sheridan

Kitsborough was the biggest house sale in Cork this year, exceeding its €1.5m-plus guide price, writes Property Editor Tommy Barker

THE city has crept in around Parkhurst, but this has been happening for a century and more, and it hasn’t bothered it yet.

THERE’S immediate development and speculative interest in the sale of fine old Castlemahon, a period home on Cork’s Castle Road near the emblematic Blackrock Castle.

THERE’S immediate development and speculative interest in the sale of fine old Castlemahon, a period home on Cork’s Castle Road near the emblematic Blackrock Castle.

THE upper end of the residential market is strong, with buyers prepared to commit to multi-million euro purchases irrespective of the punitive 9% stamp duty.

A PERIOD house in Cork city, on the edge of the emerging UCC dockland’s campus, sold yesterday for €2.7m, a full €1m over its pre-auction guide.

OPPOSITE ends of the spectrum — having sold Woodlawn in Sunday’s Well for over €5 million in the summer (a new Cork city residential record) estate agent Hugh McPhillips of Marsh’s has another rarity on his books, a total do-er upper, yet one also in the multi-million euro league.

Archaeologists began digging today for what they hope is an ancient pyramid hidden beneath a mysterious Bosnian hill that has long been the subject of legend.

RESCUE workers airlifted residents from a half-submerged riverside district of the Swiss capital yesterday as large swathes of central and southern Europe remained underwater and the death toll from flooding rose to 42.