Saturday, November 7, 2009 Previous editions
WITH 288 houses, plus dozens more unlisted new stock, listed for sale in a town with a population of just 2000, how do you sell 40 houses quickly? Slash prices, that’s how.
Tommy Barker finds an artist’s ‘quarters’ hidden in a large period house.
LOCAL gossip along the Blackrock Road in Cork would have you believe that a couple of new and renovated houses, currently in their finishing stages, are costing their owners €5 million or even €6m to complete.
THE couple behind the conversion of a former Church of Ireland church at Kilgallan, near Westport in Co Mayo — the only Irish building project to feature on Channel 4’s Grand Designs — have put the finished project on the market.
HALF of Cork has watched them being built, in defiance of the economic and housing downturn, tucked into a tight site on Cork’s Rochestown Road.
ALL the hard work has been done here in delivering a “Grand Designs” type of one-off house, in a great woodland and stream-side setting.
FORGET “is there doctor in the house?” It’s now a case of “is there a doctor in the market?”
PERSPECTIVE is everything. The country’s in a recession and Cork is finally getting the shopping it deserves — if this week’s rush to the new Dunne’s Stores outlet is anything to go by.
HAVING searched the entire country for an Irish home back in the mid-1990s, Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer settled happily upon the set piece that is Castlelyons House.
BACK in 2000, the Ballincollig bypass was just a blueprint and the new town centre was still a working army barracks.
AN absolutely great woodland garden, on some two and a half acres, in a “Golden Mile” setting along the Bandon river, comes with Shanagore House.<
THIS seaside cottage is going to fit some new owner hand in glove — at least it did so for its vendor, actor and puppeteer Dominic Moore.
FOR those with a view to a permanent residence, or a high-spec holiday home, then this property on the outskirts of Durrus should be a runner.
GOOD design speaks for itself, and in Fox Wood it speaks in hushed tones: its initial modesty gives way to a growing appreciation.
TWO miles up the Bandon river from Kinsale in Co Cork is a renovated Georgian home, Sleepy Hollow, complete with access to a tidal estuary beach.
CONCEIVED and delivered by a low-key Irish developer with sites scattered around Ireland, Rosegreen Studfarm is a bit away from his usual pattern of mixed-use commercial developments.
WHOEVER buys Cregane Manor will already be familiar with west Cork — and they’ll know just what a rarity they are getting.
AFTER a 30-year development background, developer Declan O’Mahony of Bride View Developments has seen all states of the property market (he’s even on a CIF sub-committee advising the Government on NAMA) — so it is appropriate his latest scheme is called The Seasons.
HARD to find a fault with Butlerstown House — even the asking price of €1.5 million seems reasonable, all things considered.
WITH a famous movie producer neighbour, a tidal estuary at the garden’s end plus a boathouse, pretty stables and an interior as stunning as its exterior, Tidewater Hideaway is very much in west Cork’s upper echelons.
SET in a woodland, the old Parochial House upriver of Cork city at Inniscarra, is at Canon’s Cross – or is it cannon’s cross?
BOUGHT on a honeymoon visit to Ireland almost 40 years ago, Dereen House still has all the trappings of a more romantic era.
BUYERS, be brave – you’ll be the real winners at Waterfall’s Earls Well development – getting the best new homes, bar none, built in Cork (if not all of Munster) in decades. And, you’re being offered them for a bargain, value for money price.
WHEN architect Emmet Scanlon bought his 1930s Dublin house, its vendor, Maureen Bolger, wistfully said: “I presume you’ll come in and knock everything down and build a big extension.”
Rose Martin visits six exclusive apartments up for sale in Plaza scheme.
THERE’S instant attraction, and an instant market reaction too, to this quality house — it has already been bid over its asking price in its first week on offer.
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