Two into one may go for buyer

EVER wondered where east meets west? No, it isn’t Istanbul, nor is it some sort of fusion cooking... it’s a pair of semi-ds on Cork’s Rochestown Road — it says so on the name plaques.

Eastfield and Westfield are a pair of mis-matching semis, the first a three-bed, the second, a four-bedroom home, on a site facing right on to the pretty posh Rochestown Road.

Big new builds and refurbs here can go for over €1 million (€4m is a local record) and, in fact, four very large new luxury houses are being built by a developer linked to the previous Lindville (Blackrock Road/Ballintemple Cork) development, on a small sloped site right by the Rochestown church entrance. How high over the €1 million mark will they go?