Stealing beauty in swanky suburb

ESTATE agent Jarlath Boyd has a few strings to his selling bow with a Rochestown house called Sherwood — and it is no robbery at €550,000, he says.

His aim is to take from the semi-rich (or at least the mortgage-approved,) and to give not to the poor, but to the vendors, who have “brought it to and beyond show-house standards. There’s very little to be done by any new owners.”

While Sherwood, in upper Kensington, Rochestown, in Cork isn’t exactly a forest property, it does overlook a very large green area, and has been zapped up the decades decor-wise since its 1970s inception.