Property Focus: Supply can’t keep up with demand in Carrigaline

Property Focus on the rapidly growing Cork suburb

Estate agenst say the current stock for sale is entirely inadequate for an area which has a population in the region of 20,000. Picture Denis Minihane.

Although Carrigaline possibly has more new housing development than any other town in Cork, the property shortage here is just as chronic as it is elsewhere in the country.

Roy Dennehy of Dennehy auctioneers estimates that of the 20 or so second-hand properties advertised for sale online — just six are not yet sale agreed or close to it.