Time to buy in Daffodil Fields

WELL, there’s one at least comes along each spring with impeccable timing. This time no 30 Daffodil Fields is the first four-bed detached to burst onto the selling season, in tune with nature’s equivalent, hosts of golden daffodils.

Set just beyond the Poulavone roundabout at the start of Ballincollig, Co Cork, Daffodil Fields has been a favourite place to trade up since the mid-1990s.

It was developed by Fleming Construction, who paid what was then a record price for the land (£100,000 an acre, versus €1 million-plus an acre now for comparable land).