Mahon maximises potential

A NEW residential location is just coming up on the radar screen for far-seeing Cork house buyers Jacob's Island.

Over 430 homes are to be built at Jacob's Island, on the tip of Mahon Point peninsula, at the city's boundary and with the tidal estuary beyond Douglas separating it from Rochestown.

And, in a bullish forecast, Trish Stokes, new home manager with Sherry FitzGerald, who is to release the first homes shortly, asserts: