House of the Week: St Luke’s Cross, Cork, €360,000

THERE must be green shoots in the property market — the owner of this city home is on the move again, after a flurry of house renovations in the 2000s which stopped with this home, just before the market ground to a halt.

At one stage, serial renovator Amanda Gibbons, who is an Aer Lingus cabin crew stalwart, did five Munster houses and moves in five years, with her turned-around homes regularly making the glossy pages of interior magazines. She even did a Hong Kong apartment at one stage.

This Gardiner’s Hill house, extended up to a five-bed, even made a seven-page spread in Ireland’s Homes Interiors & Living mag when it did a 2005 European City of Culture Cork Focus. Now, it’s for sale: the bug has bitten once more, and Amanda has bought again, nearby.