Who's big enough, and brave enough, to fill Larry Tompkins' boots, and to pour the pints, in the Cork city bar that proudly bears this GAA Hall of Fame sports star's name?

One of the largest industrial lettings in the Cork area in ten years has been confirmed this week.

Further office development is to take place on the last remaining commercial site in Eastgate in Cork’s Little Island.

Done up to the nines, with some architectural aplomb and, quirkily, with a strong, pink-hued thread running through its decor and interior design, it’s now a very sizeable 3,391 sq ft private family home.

Tommy Barker discovers a generously-sized house in a desirable part of Cork which has been subtly improved by its interior designer owner

A fully-let, and substantially rebuilt, period property two doors away from the Cork Vision Centre on North Main Street is for sale, with an income of €105,750 pa.

Blackrock still has plenty of pulling power, as two €1.75m+ deals are secured writes Tommy Barker.

Irish investment funds IPUT and Davy have made two separate swoops on suburban Cork retail assets.

Corner-set Oakhurst has UCC, and the five-star Hayfield Manor, on its doorstep, says Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker says life can be good and No 10 can get full marks after some gentle tweaks at this terrace off the Old Blackrock Road.

THERE’S a clock ticking in the background of this bungalow home called Vermar.

Historic Douglas Fingerpost points the way to neighbouring home The Coppins, finds Tommy Barker.

Already immaculately turned out, the new owners of this Blackrock showhouse won’t need to worry about decorating for a while, writes Tommy Barker.

GSOC has taken a long-term lease on some 5,000 sq ft of offices at the Atrium, Blackpool, in a suite vacated by a relocated business advisers and services firm, Roberts Nathan.

AN overseas property investment company acquired over 300 apartments in Cork in 2018, in two strong swoops for €67m combined - instantly making it the region’s largest PRS [Private Rented Sector] landlord to date.

INVESTMENT in Ireland’s commercial property sectors may hit €3bn by year’s end, after a particularly strong run-up to the end of Q3, and with several key Cork investments playing a strong regional role.

No 45 Lindville, Ballintemple, has a Victorian architectural architectural design right up your street, says Tommy Barker

AN overseas investment fund, as yet unconfirmed, is the buyer of the c€30 million residential-led investment sale of the City Square development, in Cork City’s Blackpool, which has a weekly income of €40,000, or c €2m per annum.

Oh say can you see a supersized home with stunning views? Tommy Barker salutes a classier ‘White House’.

THE landmark former St Vincent’s Church, in Cork’s Sunday’s Well, plus an adjacent development site, have come to market with estate agent Edward Hanafin, in two lots, each guiding €750,000, or €1.5m for the duo.

THE quiet market sale of a €30m-plus residential development, totalling 165 apartments in Cork’s Ballincollig, is likely to see a continuation of overseas buyers and funds now looking for multi-family investments of scale, outside of the Dublin market.

No 16 Browningstown Park East is a turnkey family home with a funky twist in a top location, writes Tommy Barker.

WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

Brand new to the Cork market this week is a prime office investment opportunity, for sale via agents Lisney, at 26/27 South Mall, writes Diarmaid Condon.

With housing stock for purchase at all-time low, we should adopt the apartment-for-rent model, as in Europe (where 50% of residences are apartments), says Trish Stokes.   

A number of new office occupiers and sale deals are coming to an end-of-year close in the heart of Cork city, at Lapps Quay, at City Quarter, and at the Elysian, where a new walk-in medical clinic is set to open next month and where a new restaurant letting is agreed. Plus there’s 12,000 sq ft of offices at the Elysian under active negotiation via Lisney.

Tommy Barker reports on this quality, ‘almost unique’ Blarney offering which is all things great and small

A private, low-key Irish investment company has seen off strong local, national and international bidding interest to acquire two Cork office investments, one let to Apple, the other to Trend Micro, in a deal worth close to €8 million.

SET just a few minutes’ walk away from the heart and soul of Cork’s Blackrock village’s new plaza by the pier is the Eden development.

CORK city’s ‘secret’ garden oasis is set to blossom, as the long-hidden horticultural treasure at the green centre of the new Nano Nagle Place €10.5m heritage, education, and community investment got an unofficial, soft opening yesterday.

LEADING Irish investment and hotel asset owners Tetrarch Capital plans two Cork city centre hotels in side-by-side 19th century stone warehouse building being sold by Cork City Council, who had acquired them from Nama.

THE chance to have Apple as a tenant in a Cork investment property sale will catch the eye and engage the interest of strong investors nationwide — as will the promised 10.65% net initial yield on offer in the case of two building sales valued at €7.25 million.

US-based IT semi-conductor and wireless communications firm Skyworks Ireland has moved into the ground floor of Cork city’s tallest building, The Elysian.

Two compact-sized office units, each tenanted but on short or expired leases, have been put up for sale at Cork’s Cleve Business Park, priced at €240,000 and €250,000.

The location of two, 19th century stone warehouse buildings (plus an investment property currently let out as an adult shop,) on a central 0.42 of a Cork city centre acre put up for imaginative redevelopment is what underpins an asking price close to €2m, for the property and site’s owners and vendors, Cork City Council.