Speculate to accumulate in Rochestown

YOU have to speculate to accumulate, as the saying goes, and this site on the Rochestown Road in Cork is as good an example as any of superb speculative ingenuity.

This 0.12 plot is the back garden of an existing cottage of the Rochestown Road, which took longer than expected to sell at the time, says Lucy Wolfe of Lucy Wolfe and Co.

Which was surprising, really for a prime Rochestown Road site, she says. The property sold in the high three hundreds, a sum that perhaps, other bidders though too high for a roadside cottage.