Large and lovely old properties calling out for suitable families

THE university quarter in Cork city is always a good location for property and sales have been consistent here on the back of student lettings.

Now, notwithstanding the huge opposition to high-rise development in the western suburbs, the upside of the Section 50 phenomenon has been the return of these residential areas to families.

The lovely old properties on College and Magazine roads are being gentrified by a new wave of buyers, which is not only sustaining property levels, but in some cases, is pushing prices up.