He recalled the anecdote as it was announced that Jones, Dido, Diana Ross and Sinead O’Connor are among acts performing this summer at Live at the Marquee 2020.

The stage version of Mrs Brown’s Boys is also coming to the venue, with three shows booked for June 12 and 13.

Concert promoter Peter Aiken has said is he is unaware that developers plan to begin work on the Live at the Marquee site at the end of next summer, bringing the long-running concert series to an end.

Hoping to make it an even dozen, of €1m+ home sales with an Ardbrack Kinsale address, are the owners of No 12 Father McSweeney Terrace, and their selling agent Ron Kruger of Engel & Volkers.

Once upon a time, Greg Coughlan was on top of the world with successful businesses and millions to his name. Then the recession hit, writes Dan Buckley

Cork City's curvaceous Half Moon Street development, anchored by Boots chemist at its lower level as its main flagship pharmacy in Cork, and occupied overhead by offices for Apple Europe, is for sale as an investment, with a guide price of €34 million.

There’s a sale agreed, at over €16 million, of the 43,000 sq ft Webworks building, next to Cork City Hall and the Elysian. It’s understood to be to a European fund, after considerable interest was shown in the fully occupied building, where an expected 2019 rental uplift fuelled investor demand.

Plans are being advanced for the sale of the Wilton Shopping Centre in Cork, at an expected €85m-€90m guide, after conditional planning permission for a €100m redevelopment to include a multi-screen cinema and 190-bed hotel was granted by Cork City Council within the last week.

A Cork City office building is up for sale with a €16m price tag.

A rising development tide, a housing shortage, plus the Government’s 2040 National Planning Framework, may aid the planned sale by Nama and receivers of a pivotal Cork docklands site.

BOUNCING back towards full occupancy is Cork’s City Quarter office and retail/restaurant investment, sold last year for €14 million to private clients/investors with MC2

All 31 upmarket homes are released at once, without phasing or a showhouse, says Tommy Barker

Two seminal Cork harbour mixed-use development sites with waterfrontage, in Crosshaven and in Passage West, come to the open market this week, being disposed of by the Doyle Shipping Group, and worth over €8m combined.

Dealmakers behind the €14 million purchase of the bulk of the City Quarter investment in Cork city centre from Nama have emerged as the just-re-branded MC2 Accountants, on behalf of private investors.

A DEAL worth up to €14m is to be signed in coming days on the remaining investment — including the Boardwalk bar and restaurant — at Cork city’s seminal City Quarter. 

Cork County Council has been asked to contact Nama to request that the local authority is kept informed about any property sales in the docklands area in Cork Harbour.

The Wilton Shopping Centre purchase pairing (as part of the Hazel Portfolio sale) of Irish property development and investment company Clarendon Properties, with US-based York Capital Management, bodes well for Wilton’s future, say market observers.

A 32-acre landbank “with scope to be the next Eastgate Business Park” has come for sale alongside the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork, right by where new roundabout junctions are proposed for the €100m Dunkathel interchange upgrade.

A Cork harbour site which once sold for €25m to Howard Holdings comes to market in the same week as the city’s Howard Holdings-developed Clarion Hotel sells for €35m.

Cork’s Clarion Hotel has been acquired by the Dalata Hotel Group for €35.1m in a cash deal expected to be concluded before the end of this month.

Global consulting engineering company, Arup, is to move into new Cork City offices, at One Albert Quay, in time for its 70th anniversary.

A CO KILDARE-based building firm is the buyer of a new homes site on Cork city’s Cleve Hill, Blackrock Road, paying c €3 million for six acres, with planning for 18 large homes.

TWO key moves this week may put Cork city on the investor and retail radar, as the city centre inches back from the slack years of recession.

With a price tag of €30m-plus, Cork City’s Clarion Hotel is the most valuable Irish hotel outside of Dublin to come to the open market since the economic downturn.

An unidentified, out-of-Cork purchaser has emerged as the €2million-plus buyer of a six-acre residential building site with planning for 18 luxury homes, on the city end of Cork’s Blackrock Road.

A sizeable price drop, now down to €390,00, will put this Norwood Court, Rochestown, home onto the radar of those looking for a good-sized family home.

Not a single Cork City home sold in 2014 for more than €1m. But, now, a 16-year-old Rochestown house is hoping to break that dry spell.

Tommy Barker reports on quay deals for future dock developments.

There’s shades of banishing the remaining ghosts of the much-reviled Anglo Irish Bank at its building foot-prints in both Dublin and Cork cities: the Central Bank has started to convert Anglo’s vaunting vanity HQ project to new State service, while Cork’s former Anglo Irish Bank building is getting a re-brand and letting pitch after a multi-million euro purchase.

THE top floor of City Quarter, the Cork City quayside office block facing the ambitious, new One Albert Quay €45m office site, has finally been leased.

A Cork home that can justly claim to be one of the very best — if not the best — house in the southern capital, comes to market this weekend with a cool €3.8m asking price, redolent of the best of the boom-times values.

APARTMENTS built by Howard Holdings are being offered for sale for receivers KPMG, in two lots, in Cork City centre, and in outer suburban Rochestown.

The winner of the race between two rival developers for a potential €16m kickstart fund to help build a multi-million euro events centre in Cork City will be announced next month.

This Blackrock Road, Cork, site, is back on the market with full planning for 18 large detached houses.

A key landowner in Cork’s sprawling south docklands has backed O’Callaghan Properties’ €50m Albert Quay events centre project.

WHAT value Cork’s prime docklands sites now?

Confirmation of last week’s Commercial Property exclusive story about 500 jobs coming to Cork in a major FDI investment came this Monday with Tyco publicly named as the new arrival, or returnee.