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A GOOD eye, a very sharp one, eclectic too with a quirky and unerring taste applied the final gloss to Lismore’s Headview, once part of the Devonshire estate.
REGRETS? Maybe, for the man who moved out – but the gain now goes to whoever falls for this completely reworked Co Limerick farmhouse, with extras inside and out.
THE west Coast of Clare is where a lot of people are heading this weekend and with that in mind, coastal auctioneers are polishing up their windows.
AND on the western side of the city, in the little village of Kerry Pike, a four-bed cottage, Alverna, is just on offer at €235,000.
BACK during the Celtic Tiger era, family homes swelled hugely in size, becoming as bloated as the tiger economy itself – some rising to 4,000 sq ft, 6,000 sq ft and sometimes even larger.
A BRISK seven-minute walk to Cork city and with valuable off-street parking, this semi-detached, 1930s house at 21 O’Connell Avenue, Turner’s Cross, is a new market entrant with Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald. It has a price guide of €220,000.
RECKONED to be among the best house offerings in Baltimore, west Cork, in recent years, is this stone-faced, architect-designed, 3,400 sq ft home – and it would want to be good, with a price pitched in ‘excess’ of € 900,000.
IT’S a big, new house on a half acre site in one of Cork’s best-kept-secret addresses – so that gives no 3 Tower Hill at Kilcoolishal a head start in a competitive market.
EIGHTEEN acres of shoreline open space is the huge attraction with the Jacob’s Island scheme in Cork’s Mahon Point.
AND also close to Cork harbour is this little love nest at Monkstown, Co Cork.
IT lapped up on the market last year with the guide of €1.2 million, but now, Tidewater Hideaway near Skibbereen, Co Cork, is at an asking price of €900,000 to tempt a holiday season sale.
IT has a lyrical run of names, Swallow’s Rest at French Furze, Carrigaline, and the private, Co Cork dormer also offers good value for families trading up.
THE Meadows is going to appeal to a certain type of buyer – those who prefer wide open spaces to semi-detached, city living.
BILLOWING skirts and ribboned bonnets – this sublime Regency Lodge near Bandon, Co Cork, really does bring on a Jane Austen moment.
IF you are not to the Manor born by birth, fear not: you can always buy your way to the good life – and Limerick’s Crecora might be a place to start.
A HOUSE and a half, in more ways than one – that’s what this original, 1940s, suburban semi-detached par excellence is.
THEY were tagged at a million-plus during the boom, but now these Limeworth houses are selling in the high €700s.
HERE are two with views, in Cobh, overlooking Cork harbour and all its glories.
THE curiously-named Mdina is a four-bed bungalow with a number of things going for it, not least its location close to the River Lee at Farran Woods, Co Cork.
HIDDEN away, quiet but within a few minutes’ walk of Cork city centre is the residential enclave Parkowen, just off Quaker Road.
CHEAPER than it would cost to build is this Freemount, north Cork detached 3,000 sq ft detached family home – carrying a €175,000 asking price.
THOSE with an ear for a bit of the old gaeilge may realise where Taggart Park in west Cork’s Castletownshend got its name.
LIVING right by the sea has its attractions and when the location is the inner harbour of Cork, then gales and blustering winds aren’t going to be a problem.
FULL southerly views out over the back garden to green, green fields ground this 1,800 sq ft family home to its rural roots – but it is still only a couple of miles from Douglas, and four miles from Cork city centre.
THERE’s over 1,500 sq ft of space in the smartly kept four-bed detached bungalow Brickfield House at Copperalley Road in east Cork’s coastal town of Youghal, and you also get a floored useful attic and a 350 sq ft detached garage to boot.
MUSICIAN, John Lyons, who once played with Van Morrison, has placed his Belgooly, Co Cork home on the market.
SIX bedrooms, 0.6 of an acre of shrubbed gardens, and a guide price of €600,000 – not a bad sequence on offer at the big 2,500 sq ft family bungalow Clonard, on the edge of Kinsale town.
THERE is good value – even bargains to be had in the property market at the moment, but with strings attached.
LITTLE point in speculating now about what would have been paid five years ago for a Glandore perch like 1, The Terrace – the point now is will this prime-perch property with shore frontage be bid above its market reality €400,000 asking price.
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