Not too many Irish homes are featured in the New York Times but a ranch-style property in Cork has been given a full-page feature in the famous US newspaper.
The exclusive property is sure to whip up interest in the US after photos of its stunning views and the area around Bantry Bay jumped off the page at readers, drawing them in to one of the most beautiful parts of the country.
The Courtyard overlooking Bantry bay is not exactly your bog-standard Semi-D but it's location is unrivalled in gorgeous Glengarriff, all the way down past Bantry on the Beara Peninsula.
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But the spectacularly sited home, built 25 years ago and with its own gardens running right to the water in Glengarriff harbour, comes with its own beach and views across one of the most gorgeous inlets in Europe.
The holiday home overlooking Glengarriff Harbour and Dunmanus Bay is currently on the market with Sherry Fitzgerald for €1.35m - it's on 0.8 acres of mature gardens with its own entrance down a secluded, wooded lane.
It's been picked by the New York Times as its international property of the week and the famous US newspaper raves about its entrance hall with vaulted ceiling and skylights, oak beams and a terra-cotta tile floor and the main room with two large windows and a log-burning stove inside an exposed brick fireplace.
There is a glass conservatory at the far end of the room and double glass doors open onto a terrace overlooking the garden and the wide, island-dotted bay.
The New York Times says the move to remote working has seen even the more isolated parts of Ireland, including West Cork
The newspaper says the end of the lockdowns and restrictions, and the move to remote working, has seen people originally from West Cork or those who have always wanted to live there, flock to the region and buy up houses as permanent homes.
It notes: "Kinsale, a historic port and yachting town of about 5,000 residents in County Cork, with colorful galleries and a Michelin-starred restaurant, is among the most desirable (and most expensive) places for buyers without local ties."
"Prices for waterfront property can reach 5 million euros, said Catherine McAuliffe, director of Cork residential at Savills Ireland. (The euro, which has fallen to its lowest level in years, is currently exchanging at roughly an equal rate with the U.S. dollar.)
The NYT also notes that having a non-Irish or non-EU passport may not necessarily be a problem as the Ireland Immigrant Investor Program, established in 2012, "allows buyers from outside the European Economic Area with a personal net worth of at least 2 million euros to secure residency status in exchange for investing in the Irish economy."
There is just one exception to this rule - Russian citizens have been banned from applying for this scheme since the invasion of Ukraine.
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