THE selling agent for Gorsefield might as well shout out its best attribute — ‘The work is all done’ — because that’s what’s going to sell it, and likely in jig time too. The c 1950s/1960s four-bed semi-d featured in these pages in autumn of 2024, when it had an E1 BER, and carried a €540,000 asking price. Gorsefield in 2024, before the revampIn the event, it sold for €520,000, just under the asking price - unusual enough for an address like Cork’s Loreto Park, just off the South Douglas Road and near the Cross Douglas Road, where normally bidding drives prices over launch levels. The increase chimes with anecdotal accounts of current upgrades/extensions on dated semi-ds coming in at €200,000 to €300,000, and more again if substantially extended. Also showing with a Loreto ‘one t’ address is Trenton, in 2024 at €540,000, while a large detached called Lauderdale sold in 2023 at a recorded €877,500.

Source: Irish Examiner January 11, 2026 13:53 UTC