History in the making at 3 Vernon View

PERIOD trimmings and good sash windows, five bedrooms, parking in front, a deck and fern-fringed patio behind, plus the city centre not much more than a mile away.

That's a potted biog of 3, Vernon View on Cork's South Douglas Road. But, its estate agent Finbarr Roche could give enough background to fill out the rest of this page.

The auctioneer with Access Properties knows the place well as his father was born and reared in the house next door, and the vendor of no 3 is now his own brother Seamus. "We call it Chez Shay," he quips of the chi-chi family home which hits the market with a €550,000 price guide.