Sq m: 127 sq m (1,367 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

Completion of the file in the case against a 36-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother of three in Passage West has been delayed to allow for the inclusion of documents related to his previous medical history.

Police in the North are investigating a serious sexual assault on a 17-year-old girl.

VICTORIA ROAD, CORK €265,000

Tommy Barker rounds up some of the movers and shakers in an otherwise depressed year on the domestic property front

Idaville, built by a woman who gave one house apiece to each of her four nieces in what was a quadruple gesture of generosity.

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.

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.

PRAGUE is a property hot spot for Irish investors, and so too can good interest be expected in the more locally-sited bungalow Prague Ville.

As a determined “skip-rat” I find the whole idea of salvaging architectural items from old buildings utterly fascinating. When an important or interesting building is being totaled, or re-furbished, a tender goes out to various companies for the useful artifacts.

A COMPACT inner suburban Cork city site with planning for just five townhouses made a very strong €800,000 at auction last week.

THE first house to be built since the 1930s in Ashton Park, off the Blackrock Road in Cork city, will cost you €500,000 - but decide to buy now and you’ll get a chance to have an input into the finished product.