Two for joy on the sunny sites

WOULD someone buy two adjoining Well Road houses just for the sake of a decent-sized site for one new home - even if it cost them €1 million?

The answer is “quite possibly”, given the remarkable prices paid in recent months for good southside house-site locations in Cork.

Cases in point are a Crab Lane cleared site with planning for a new two-storey home sold for over €800,000, and a 1980s detached house off the Blackrock Road by Lindville, selling for over €1.5m, while another e1m-plus Blackrock house may also face the same fate.