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IF you can’t sell your house, or are just stuck for cash in any case, how about selling some of the toys of the Celtic Tiger era?
ONE of Cork city’s most venerable hills now has bookmarks of exceptional note, separated in time by almost 180 years.
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.
WILL it be a case of back to basics, and the way it was, at the one-time west Cork home of billionaire businessman Dermot Desmond?
IT’S not often these big, Bishopstown houses come up for sale and considering the depressed market at the moment, now could be the time to make that trade-up decision.
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