House of the week

THERE’S huge originality to play with at 4 Pinewood, a century-old home on Cork’s main Douglas Road — within a skip of the city centre, and with a private, long back garden.

New to market as an executor sale, it’s on a strip of road between St Finbarr’s Hospital and Douglas village where ‘sold’ signs have suddenly proliferated on houses which had, in some cases at least, been on the market since last year or before.

Prices on the sold properties ranged from a refurbished four-bed semi by the village sold by Timothy Sullivan for close to €500,000, a large Victorian semi by the swimming pool made between €450k and €500k with Sherry FitzGerald, while two adjacent period terraced homes by St Finbarr’s sold for €120,000 to €250,000, in very different states of repair.