Timeless and well-designed to stand the test of time

BUILT just too early for all the flashness of the boom-to-bust era, the big family homes at Berkeley, off Cork city’s Carr’s Hill outside Douglas are unflashy, timeless and well-designed houses, which are standing the test of time.

Now about 10 years old, there’s only 10 houses in this scheme built by the big, Douglas landowning and livestock family the Horgans.

And, in the interim years, there have only been one or two resales, with prices topping €1 million in the mid-decade, dropping to asking prices of €875,000 in 2007.