Cork Property Thread

The area just before you turn onto Water Street - a row of colourful terraced houses on the right hand side coming from Tivoli (rockview terrace??) - pretty "eventful" there, many a garda car I saw outside them and news reports of drug busts and such.

It's a nice house but I don't think I'd like to live on Lower Glanmire Road.

Does anyone have some info on the older brick building just past the Anglesea St Garda station ?. If you google 11 Anglesea St you should get an image. I think the building has a plaque which says St Matthew and Annes I think. It is a lovely building and I would be interested in some history and current/future usage.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/11+Anglesea+St,+Ballintemple,+Cork,+T12+A6XF/@51.8949687,-8.4649984,3a,75y,67.11h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6VXcTK9l6SVyx3n9bzTN3Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x48449005b5f4917f:0x7e83fb3ffc64836e!8m2!3d51.8951346!4d-8.4646606

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Sts Joachim and Anne's

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20508384/s-s-joachim-and-annes-asylum-anglesea-street-cork-city-cork-city-cork

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40142075.html

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20395182.html

Thanks for that !

Kerry25x wrote: »

Listing price has increased to 330k now.

Must be a lot of interest in the place.

shtpEdthePlum wrote: »

What a ripoff.

I still wouldn't like to live there, at half the price!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Great renovation of the house and it looks brilliant but the location is not great, and with property location is nearly everything.

It's extremely central.

Deleted User wrote: »

Great renovation of the house and it looks brilliant but the location is not great, and with property location is nearly everything.

I used to live very close to here. I worked in Carrigtwohill and the Mrs worked in the Mercy, we found the location fantastic. I drove the car to Carrigtwohill but that's all I really drove for, walking and cycling suited all my other needs. A stone throw from town and never really ever got a taxi home. Never really drove to Dublin either with the train station across the road. Lower Glanmire rd will get quieter too in the future with other access roads to the city. It could be a very shrewd buy.

leahyl wrote: »

What other access roads are coming? Where that house is, the cars will be coming out of the city not going into it.

I saw in a recent announcement for new cycling infrastructure that there is to be new road called Horgan's road cutting across the train station yard, the road on Horgan's Quay is to be developed into a recreation area. Also, if ever the new bridge connects to Monahan road across the river. It's all pie in the sky stuff but it could mean a potentially quieter road on lower glanmire road.

leahyl wrote: »

Yes, but the lower road will still be there? Is the plan for this Horgans road to be two way? Anyway, as you say, all very much pie in the sky at the moment.

Not sure yet but I imagine so. MacCurtain street layout will be completely change soon enough, it will be a lot harder for cars to get to lower glanmire road, especially from the Mallow side. This will somewhat make lgr a bit quieter.

Wow, wouldn't have expected it to go past 350k, they've done a really great job on the inside but its still a terraced house without even a front yard to seperate it from the street.

Mav11 wrote: »

You could say the same thing about a lot of roads, but unlike Lovers Walk or Rochestown rd, the houses on the lower rd tend, in general, to be closer to the roadway. Also because of the closeness of houses or walls to both sides of the road, speeding traffic noise tends to be magnified.

May not bother some people but it wouldn’t be for me. Particularly not at that price.

It's probably not for everyone but neither is suburbia and having to drive everywhere. It's probably more suited to younger people who want quick access to town and not really worry about traffic.

timmyjimmy wrote: »

It's probably not for everyone but neither is suburbia and having to drive everywhere. It's probably more suited to younger people who want quick access to town and not really worry about traffic.

Absolutely, I live in a similar place myself for the last few years, terraced city house, walking distance to everything and its very handy for the social life but half the attraction was a cheap mortgage and its not someplace id want to stay forever. 380k is a very high price point for that market of people, however someone is willing to pay it I guess. Sign of the times.

The house was launched at too low a price to generate click bait articles and interest, which has worked and kudos to them for it.

That being said , you could buy a similar house in a similar area without the work being done for reasonable enough money. But you would need to know what you are at tackling a renovation in a period home.



The garden is nice and everything but you need to be really careful with refurbs. Have they upgraded insulation , has ventilation been thought of, and signs of rising damp etc. The finishes on the house are nice though, clearly alot of thought put into the decor and style

Mav11 wrote: »

I don’t believe that living here or indeed most places would negate the need for a car. Public transport isn’t the greatest in Ireland and for simple things like the weekly shop how are you going to drag things say from Merchants quay or Paul st particularly in bad weather? If you have kids getting them to school or training etc. There are still too many occasions when a car is needed and if you don’t have a car, life could still be very limited in Ireland.

Mrs cycles home everyday from the Mercy, she does it all the time in all weathers, She hasn't melted yet. We're always passing shops and pick up what we need, that's the beauty about so close to the centre, you don't have to do weekly shops. There's also the option of delivery.
Irish people always over inflate how bad the weather is, it's grand. What Irish people need to do is get a good coat and deal with it. I lived in Gothenburg for a while and people cycled in the worst of weather all year round, thing is they wore clothes that catered for the weather. Lots of kids doing the same, kids in Irish schools are mollycoddled being dropped to the front door of schools.
Lots of options now available now to use a car whenever you want and not own one, ie, gocar. Attitudes are changing, I know plenty of people who are now middle aged who've never owned a car, especially friends in Dublin.

timmyjimmy wrote: »

Mrs cycles home everyday from the Mercy, she does it all the time in all weathers, She hasn't melted yet. We're always passing shops and pick up what we need, that's the beauty about so close to the centre, you don't have to do weekly shops. There's also the option of delivery.
Irish people always over inflate how bad the weather is, it's grand. What Irish people need to do is get a good coat and deal with it. I lived in Gothenburg for a while and people cycled in the worst of weather all year round, thing is they wore clothes that catered for the weather. Lots of kids doing the same, kids in Irish schools are mollycoddled being dropped to the front door of schools.
Lots of options now available now to use a car whenever you want and not own one, ie, gocar. Attitudes are changing, I know plenty of people who are now middle aged who've never owned a car, especially friends in Dublin.

Lovely idea, I'll grant you that. I would love if it were so. I think it really depends on the stage of life that a person is at, their ability to be able to cycle or walk is a factor, among other things.

I would also consider that the satisfaction of the need for a car, by Gocar, taxi or even delivery, to be simply another form of ownership, which has to a limited extent displaced traditional ownership. It is ownership nevertheless.

The extent to which these new forms of ownership will displace traditional ownership will really depend on utility and cost/benefit analysis. Among many scenarios which could be examined, consider this on the cost side. You are at a stage of life where you buy a home in the centre of a city and get rid of the car. Five years on, you decide to move or buy a holiday home in west Cork for which you need a car. You rock up to your insurance company for a quote and they tell you sorry sir but you are a first time insurer and as that you will pay an astronomical amount for the next 5 years. This is one of the hidden costs of giving up car ownership.

Gothenburg is probably better geared than we are here in Ireland for carless living. I'm currently living in Dublin, in walking distance of the Luas, the Dart and the most frequent bus route in the country the 46a. I can cycle to st. Stephens green in 15mins but I still need a car. Kids needing to be driven to matches all over the county, picked up from discos at midnight:(, family or friends needing to be brought to or from a hospital appointment, plenty of journeys to Cork:)etc etc etc. I could go on.

So as I said lovely idea, but it really depends on the stage of life that you are at, how wide or narrow your social sphere / responsibility is, as to how practical or desirable going carless is in Ireland today.

Probably is a discussion for a different forum but..................!

For a similar price in Shandon, a much bigger place & also I'd argue a much nicer spot to live than a busy road.

9 Church Street, Shandon, Co. Cork
6 Bed
3 Bath
218 m²

Spideoige wrote: »

Ballincollig are getting ahead of themselves, I see this went up today, just over 100k more than it sold for in 2018. Almost half a million for a typical housing estate four bed house!

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-the-avenue-coolroe-heights-ballincollig-cork-p31-dk38/4502001

I think the ballinglanna 4 beds are tipping 390-400k . So it seems to be the market is moving to 4 bed being over 400k , but this is way over that.

namloc1980 wrote: »

Wow that's just bananas. Massively overlooked (which you expect in an estate but this appears to be particularly bad), small inside, tiny garden with no back or side entrance as well as what looks like communal parking out front. €330k for that!

As long as there are ejits willing to pay it!!!

SummerK wrote: »

I have been hearing about affordable homes in cork and recently saw a banner on blarney street. Is it real and is there a way to apply for one? I searched on cork co co sites but could not get info.

Probably the lotabeg development, I'd imagine the 223k price for a 3 bed is pie in the sky stuff now

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40138637.html

romaderwdcsax wrote: »

A house in bishopstown started at 435k, now at 485k, gone up 20k overnight 😲

Which house is that?

romaderwdcsax wrote: »

A house in bishopstown started at 435k, now at 485k, gone up 20k overnight 😲

And if the current market is anything to go by, it will sell for another 30 or 40k above that.

435k is a shocking price for that. So outdated looking. You’d need 100k to bring it up to date.