Guided at €1.25m, it comes back to the market, after it was floated in 2013 at €2.2m, reports Tommy Barker.

It’s a rare bird, to be sure — a Rochestown Road home in Cork, modern, detached, on half an acre or more of grounds, along with waterfrontage, and a lofted boathouse with overhead apartment.

Tommy Barker views a large family home at a destination address.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates the four-star Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork increased by almost 20% to €1.2m last year even as revenues almost stood still.

Ashgrove House has a great mix of indoor and outdoor space, says Tommy Barker.

In the ever popular Mount Oval development in Rochestown, this two-bed, mid-terraced house at 44 Clonlea is new to the market with a guide of €250,000.

To understand the changing heart of the GAA, it’s worth a trip to the Cork City Junior C Football League final.

This well kept three-bed has plenty to offer, writes Trish Dromey

The price, condition, and location are all factors generating substantial early interest in 27 Carmen Lawn, writes Trish Dromey 

This spacious Foxwood bungalow keeps getting better and better , says Tommy Barker

Likely to tick boxes for investors, first time buyers and traders down, the well-kept former investment property is guided at €310,00 by Michael O’Donovan of Savills.

Tommy Barker admires a reasonably-priced home in the scheme just across the Douglas River from Rochestown.

Auctioneer Florence Gabriel of Sherry FitzGerald launches No 18 at €350,000, and it’s quite the typical original layout.

Trish Dromey says this mid-terraced two-bed in the desirable Mount Oval in the Cork suburb of Rochestown will be a popular choice.

“You can feel the love,” enthuses Florence Gabriel, the selling agent of this three-bed end-terrace home.

Turnout is expected to be high at open viewings for starters, says Trish Dromey.

This is a mellow-looking brick-faced home in the Mount Oval Village development in Cork’s Rochestown.

Prime space in Mount Oval Lawn is surely set to yield several sites, writes Tommy Barker.

This one-off slice of 1970s architecture has bags of space to rise to its potential, says Tommy Barker.

Progress has been made on the development of the Rochestown Educate Together National School in Rochestown, Co Cork.

Tommy Barker says this well-placed elevated oasis is in need of an architect’s eye to bring it back to life.

A rare opportunity to experience penthouse living and enjoy expansive views of the Lough Mahon Estuary is now being offered at 82, The Sonata, at Harty’s Quay in Rochestown.

This 10-year old property ‘compound’ has its very own hard surface, fully fenced tennis court amid other garden delights.

The Garryduff area has some large, extremely popular developments for families trading up and on the move, and niche Monfield, with just two dozen or so homes appears exceptionally family-friendly.

New house developments have come a-plenty to the area around Clarkes Hill and Garryduff in Cork’s Rochestown: there may have been as 2,000 homes built in the last few decades ‘round Mount Oval, since the time Hill House Cottage itself was built on its own plot.

There’s a good mix of house types up at the lofty-sounding Kensington address, atop Clarkes Hill in Cork’s Rochestown, built back in the 1970s for the traders-up and the traders-out of that now-distant decade.

Tommy Barker says this split level house is back on recovering market.

A modern option for a young couple or single person in search of a first home is 19 Ardkeale, Mount Oval Village in Rochestown.

Just popping up as a sales teaser prior to Christmas (if you’ve been good all year, and want to add an item or two to your Santa wish-list), but not launching until March 2016, are three brand new 2,500 sq ft Rochestown homes by Belmont and Garryduff with agents DNG Creedon.

IT’S AN island, but more in name than reality — welcome to Rochestown’s Hop Island, a hop, skip and a jump from suburban Cork, from Douglas village, and from the vital, arterial ring road.