Imposing Lotaville: Tivoli, Cork, €850,000

Sq m 700 (7,500 sq ft)

Now about 200 years old, the period home Lotaville three miles east of Cork City clearly has had a number of different family owners – and, it has probably had as many estate agents in the past 12 years too, possibly as many as six, including several joint agencies. Maybe now the time has come for it to sell?

It’s back on the books of Joe McCarthy and Robert O’Keeffe of Irish and European, who first listed it back in 2002, when it carried a €1.6m price guide. It dropped down the years dipping in and out of market. We last covered it in 2012 at €850,000, and now it’s back again, at €850,000 still, and in the intervening period the market probably fell a little more, and rose again considerably in the past nine months.