US-based property investment fund Starwood Property Trust is understood to be preparing to sell a portfolio of offices in Dublin, in one of Ireland’s biggest real estate sales.

Home in one of Cork’s most desirable addresses is as fresh as a daisy after careful expansions and renovations, writes Tommy Barker.

In the rapidly expanding domain of global cyber security breaches, 2017 set a new bar for computer network attacks.

The last re-sale of a Bellair Estate home, right on the main Douglas Road in Cork, was to a Munster rugby club player. 

It’s been a while since a house in Cork’s Knockrea or Woolhara Parks have come to market - certainly not since the upper end of the market began its climb back out of the doldrums of the last seven years.

ANTIQUE SELECTION

MARSH’S VIEWING

Des O’Sullivan says that despite rising financial markets, antiques prices are still low at auction.

AN ENTIRE South Mall building, opposite the Imperial Hotel, is coming to market for lease because overhead tenants, law firm Ronan Daly Jermyn, are relocating to City Gate Park in Mahon, Cork.

Mortgage approvals in the UK plunged by nearly a fifth in September, a survey said today, amid warnings that a multibillion-pound lending scheme will take time to have an impact.

VICTORIA ROAD, CORK €265,000

Brian Ellison will wait until Monday before deciding on Marsh Warbler’s target at Cheltenham next week.

Dublin: Insurance broker Marsh has acquired HSBC Insurance Brokers Ltd (HIBL), a subsidiary of HSBC Bank.

THE collapse of the Irish property market has resulted in fee and commission income at Ireland’s largest auctioneers, Sherry FitzGerald Holdings, plummeting by €25 million as losses surged by 310% to €15.55m.

THE upper end of the residential market is strong, with buyers prepared to commit to multi-million euro purchases irrespective of the punitive 9% stamp duty.

OPPOSITE ends of the spectrum — having sold Woodlawn in Sunday’s Well for over €5 million in the summer (a new Cork city residential record) estate agent Hugh McPhillips of Marsh’s has another rarity on his books, a total do-er upper, yet one also in the multi-million euro league.

American insurance broker Marsh & McLennan could cut hundreds of jobs in the UK this spring, it emerged today.

Investors welcomed a lower-than-expected drop in wholesale prices and sent stocks higher today, ending a troubled week on Wall Street on a positive note.

US stocks barely moved today while investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates.

US INSURANCE giant Marsh and McLellan announced a revamp of its business practices yesterday, as its chief executive resigned in the wake of a fee manipulation controversy that caused a 50% fall in its share price.

Marsh & McLennan directors may force chief executive Jeffrey Greenberg to step down after the world’s largest insurance brokerage lost two-fifths of its market value following a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, investors said.

Insurance firm Marsh Ireland is to create 75 jobs in a new financial services centre in Spiddal, Co Galway.

Payment solutions specialists Trintech have secured a contract with US supermarket chain Marsh to automate the delivery of their gift certificates.

YOU don’t have to go to Spain to buy Spanish property - or at least a place that wouldn’t look out of place on the Iberian peninsula.