Big house records smashed

DESPITE the economic downturn, it isn’t necessarily a bad time to be selling a multi-million euro Irish house.

It’s buyer flew in from abroad and saw off stiff competition from old Cork families and others, driving its selling price from its €2.5 million guide with Lisneys to close to a staggering 4 million. It is a new house price record for Cork and one of the strongest deals anywhere in the country this year (see further details below).

Sailing into a surprisingly buoyant Autumn house market, meanwhile, is Westview, a Georgian home on a full 10 acres of prime land, 14 miles west of Cork city at Aglish, Farran.