Timelessness of the Sheep’s Head Property, West Cork

Timelessness of the Sheep’s Head Property, West Cork

In the West Cork Property scene, stamp duty plays a very important part in the market, just as it does everywhere else in the State.
With legislative elections looming in Ireland (During the summer on a working day, which should ensure minimum turnout), stamp duty has become an issue so hot that it almost defies credibility. [...]

One of the reasons why the West Cork property scene sustains itself through thick and thin is because we have here a lot of peninsulas and islands.
“So what”, I hear you say – or at least sense that you are saying. Well, the reason that this point is relevant is because islands and peninsulas [...]

The lure of West Cork property continues to defy upturns, downturns or whatever trends there are out there on the high turbulent seas of international finance. The solid value of property in West Cork stems, as I’ve said many times before, not from such movements but from the unending draw towards this beautiful corner [...]

Despite the harbingers of doom and gloom that were so prevalent in our local and national media towards the end of 2006, the West Cork property scene did perform well during the year. Figures just released by the Permanent TSB House Price Index show an increase in property prices nationally of just under 12%. [...]

Despite the harbingers of doom and gloom that were so prevalent in our local and national media towards the end of 2006, the West Cork property scene did perform well during the year. Figures just released by the Permanent TSB House Price Index show an increase in property prices nationally of just under 12%. [...]

Perusing through some reports in the national media, it makes for very interesting comment on the West Cork Property scene.
Starting with television, the recent report on RTE’s Prime Time highlighted some of the problems associated with sharp practice and downright dishonesty amongst certain auctioneering firms. It also underlined how seemingly complimentary practices within firms [...]

The New Year brings an unknown atmosphere to the West Cork Property scene.
For Harrington Estates, the year did end positively with a flurry of activity that is not typical of the year-end but was nonetheless welcome. In fact, it has been a feature of recent years that the months of November and December – [...]

In addressing the question of what, if any, effect the recent Prime Time documentary report is going to have on West Cork property, it will first of all be a case of waiting to see what develops next.
Joining Senator Shane Ross (in what I would have to admit as an auctioneer are well-founded concerns) were [...]