Tommy Barker

Cork

Property Editor at Irish Examiner

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Hybrid work drives appetite for new housing in East Cork

5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A demographic bulge, net inward migration, returning Irish expats and work from home options for relocators from Dublin, London, the Middle and Far East and North America and elsewhere are (as elsewhere) helping underpin the strength of the East Cork property market.
Bantry architect firm Daly Barry selling its offices

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

The premises of noted West Cork design practice Daly Barry and Associates, Architectural, on the Glengarriff Rd in Bantry town, are for sale with vacant possession as the firm draws back after 30 years of practice. Founded in 1991 by Ted Daly and Martin Barry, Daly Barry moved to this location in 2003 from a site by Bantryās harbour, now occupied by a SuperValu that they designed.
West-Acre for €950,000 could become a fore-ever home

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

€950,000 Size 400 sq m (4,300 sq ft) Bedrooms 5 Bathrooms 4 BER C1 As good as built all over again, and good as new, is West Acre, a very substantial, super-sized family home of 4,300 sq ft, on three acres, in Cork’s Corran, Waterfall. A short haul out to the west from the city and suburbs, it comes complete with a putting green for golf fun and a stable block.
Little Island's EastGate Hall offices for sale for €1.6m

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A fully let office investment that has a mix of tenants — in Cork’s 1m sq ft mixed-use development EastGate — and promising a return of 8%, is up for sale to investors, likely to have an appeal to a party looking for strong pension income.
Schull fish plant and restaurant a big catch for €1.75m

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

Catch of the day in West Cork holiday hotspot Schull has to be this pierside property, likely now to be an upmarket development play, one with a 37-year history in fish processing, exports, and seasonal quayside dining for locals, sailors, and “blow-ins” like newly arrived second-home owner, actor Paul Mescal.
Glanmire's derelict mill site for sale for €575,000

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

A long, lush, and overgrown slice of Riverstown/Glanmire history has come up for sale in the outline shape of Ballinglanna Mills and old former mill house on 2.5 acres.
Cash in on Cork nostalgia as northside landmark Con’s Shop listed for €750k

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

Fair exchange is no robbery — that’s one line of appeal in the sale of a Cork northside institution with a return of close to 10%. Con’s Shop, with an attached launderette and overhead apartment, is all on offer with a €750,000 AMV. Known for decades as Con the Robber’s, the Gurranabraher shop was run by the late and legendary Con O’Leary, who passed away at the start of 2024, predeceased by his wife Anne who died in 2020.
Darkness to light: The phoenix-like transformation of Cork City's Carrig House

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

Sadly, the capital of the south has a legacy of letting quite extraordinary buildings lie idle, prone to arson or vandalism, or both. Insert your own pet grudge here: think of once-fine mansions and villas above this Lower Glanmire Road, Lee-facing 1820s property, up on the Montenotte hillside, such as the departed Woodhill, Woodlands, Ard Na Laoi and more, or various convents also straddling the northside‚Äôs shouldering hills, hulking shells like the Good Shepherd Convent?
Older world feel in great spot

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Tommy Barker

‚ā¨360,000 Size 66 sq m (700 sq ft) Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 1 BER E2 THERE‚ÄôS a lovely, older world feel to No 1 Vandeville, a period era end-terrace home at the start of Cork city‚Äôs Ballinlough Road.
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.