Tommy Barker

Cork

Property Editor at Irish Examiner

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US billionaire's €4.75m Kinsale home largely demolished to pave way for home and farm hub

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A private animal sanctuary is promised for the grounds of a Georgian-era Kinsale house bought for €4.75m by a billionaire currently living on a boat. But, his Munster Sprayfield House period property purchase in 2023, has just been largely demolished, pending its extensive reconstruction as a home and farm. Discovering more extensive woes in old buildings when they are opened up is the stuff of TV makeover shows, and can to happen anyone, on any budget.
€4.75m Georgian home in Kinsale to boast animal sanctuary

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A private animal sanctuary is promised for the grounds of a Georgian-era Kinsale house bought for €4.75m by a billionaire currently living on a boat. But, his Munster Sprayfield House period property purchase in 2023, has just been largely demolished, pending its extensive reconstruction as a home and farm. Discovering more extensive woes in old buildings when they are opened up is the stuff of TV makeover shows, and can to happen anyone, on any budget.
Kinsale Georgian villa bought by US billionaire for €4.75m has been virtually demolished

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A Georgian villa near Kinsale bought for €4.75m by a US billionaire just two years ago as part of an ongoing property splurge has been virtually demolished. Just the front and part side walls of the 200-year old Sprayfield House are left standing, pending rebuilding and enlargement.
Changing profile of new home buyers as demand soars

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

Just 5,000 Irish people were able to buy their own home last year, the new president of the Construction Industry Federation has calculated. Shifts in the Irish home building sector over the past 20 years have been starkly outlined by veteran builder Stephen McCarthy, as he steps into a high profile with CIF, the representative body for builders.
Good news for buyers with positive signs of new housing on horizon

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

Supply of new homes in Cork was ahead of the national average in 2024, according to the Construction Industry Federation. The CIF, the representative body for Irish builders, is not alone in welcoming the signs of progress in new home developments.
New Homes: Starter schemes have a vital role to play

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A quiet revolution has been taking place in the Irish new homes market, with a raft of schemes to help buyers, support developers and help ensure continuity and, indeed, boost supply. And, given how far short housing delivery was in 2024 at just over 30,000 units, vs the 40,000 figure that Government, other bodies and indeed commentors told us would be done by the end of ’24, it hardly bears thinking about how much worse it would have been without the new supports.
New Homes: Menu of solutions to soaring demand for housing

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

We tend to go around in circles as well as cycles, and it’s as obvious in housing as it is in many other areas of government policy: just look at the acknowledgement across all sectors that one method of speeding up home delivery is off-site and modular home construction … but that’s nothing new.
Cork’s Cotton Ball pub and brewery listed for €950k after 151 years

2 months ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A Cork City pub that is a local ‘legend’ and successful micro-brewery is to leave its original family ownership hands after a 151-year span across four generations and constant innovation. Fresh to market for the first time since being established, in 1874, is the Cotton Ball pub and entertainment venue. It is located in densely populated suburban Mayfield, along with a micro-brewery established by long-term owners, the Lynch family, in 2013.
Do your level best to buy this €630k three-storey family home in Rochestown

2 months ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

€630,000 Size 153 sq m (1,645 sq ft) Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 3 BER C3 NO 21 Dewberry, in Cork’s Mount Oval, is on the level, in more ways than one. A ‘what you see is what you get’ sort of modern, three-storey family home, it’s had tweaks out the back which saw the kitchen/dining area enlarged and squared off. In the process, the slight split level in this rear space was removed and all put on the same level for ease of mobility.
House of the Week: Lindville semi-d in Ballintemple could hit the €1m mark

2 months ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

€950,000 Size 250 sq m (2,691 sq ft) +30 sq m attic (approx) Bedrooms 5 Bathrooms 4 BER C1 HARKING back to the past is a trait with a long, long history at Cork’s Lindville – in fact, it goes back almost two full centuries, to the original period house at Lindville, in built-out Ballintemple.