Thanks for your responses,
Friars walk house,well TBH,my partner queried the Estate agent, response was the immortal phrase " it requires some modernisation".....ahem.
As we have more or less just completed a renovation project on our Dublin house, (which we purchased 4 yrs ago), we really don't have the stomach to purchase anyhting other than a turn key or something requiring minor cosmetic improvements this time around.
A house near UCC would be ideal because as stated in my first post, we intend renting the property in the short term and occupy it ourselves when we eventually make the move to Cork. Close proximity to UCC should guarantee occupany for most of the year.
The arguments you put forth WRT purchasing in near Cork City Centre makes sense. They are the precise reasons we are entertianing the move in the first instance. Notwithstanding the fact that the census showed a decline in Cork's population (IIRC), it seems to be a city that is going places and has, IMO, a more amenable scale to that of Dublin.Improvements to the road & rail links to Dublin/East Coast also increase it's desirability as a place to live.Your estimations of the Friar Walk area are v interesting........nothing like some local knowledge.
All that said, I suppose I'm just concerned about really gearing up at this point in time.
Z