A planning green light has been give for a 25 storey apartment tower in Cork city has just been approved for the Sextant pub/Carey Tools site in Cork city centre, sandwiched between two major office developments.

Planning permission has been granted for the development of an apartment complex on the site of a well-known former pub in Cork city, despite objections from a number of local residents including a city councillor.

The developers of a 17-storey apartment block in Cork city centre increased the height of their building after consulting with An Bord Pleanála.

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

A Dublin housing complex for more than 140 students close to the Grangegorman university campus has been proposed.

Residents in an apartment building on the northside of Cork city say they are facing homelessness after being served a mass eviction notice.

Property developers are planning over 4,000 apartments in Dublin under new fast-track planning rules.

Plans for more than 500 apartments in two Cork city schemes have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála.

The proposed 66-apartment, 13-storey tower in Glanmire would have been just four metres shorter than the Elysian tower, the tallest building in Cork.

A fire broke out in an apartment complex and two people lost their lives. The building may not have been constructed properly but this wasn’t explored. Special Correspondent Michael Clifford sheds some light on the subject.

A proposal to develop a 13-storey apartment block in a Cork city suburb has been widely criticised.

Fianna Fáil wants to give a €300 relief to apartment dwellers who pay both property tax and maintenance fees.

A hotel group has announced plans to build apartments alongside a new complex in Dublin 4.

The unprecedented growth of student accommodation in Cork City over the past two years has raised concerns.

Homeless charity The Peter McVerry Trust has secured planning permission for 18 apartments in Dublin city centre.

Restrictions on the height of apartment blocks could be lifted as early as December.

Kya deLongchamps considers a chic waterside Rochestown apartment with village amenities at its back

A company has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing a ‘vulture fund’-appointed receiver from carrying out any of his functions in respect of a south Dublin property consisting of several apartments and a car park.

Confusion has arisen over responsibility for the provision of emergency housing for tenants made homeless by a fire at a privately-owned apartment in Cork last weekend.

AN investment block of 24 modern, purpose built apartments in the heart of the north Cork town of Mallow has come to market as one lot, at an average price of c.€99,000 per unit.

The State has been quoted a cost of €536,638 for a one-bed apartment to be made available for social housing, in a development in South Dublin, writes Irish Examiner reporter Daniel McConnell .

New guidelines on apartment sizes are being criticised as being in favour of builders and developers only.

A chance to buy 24 Cork apartments, 11 in the city centre in a quality, contemporary scheme and 13 in Passage West, all for €3.5 million, has come to market with DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, who’ll also sell in two specific lots.

How did we arrive at a state of affairs where people can spend hundreds of thousands of euro buying recently built apartments in Dublin and elsewhere, and then find that these properties, which allegedly met the necessary building standards and regulations, are not fit for purpose?

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority has written to the management of the Longboat Quay apartments with an offer of financial support for the cost of the repair works needed.

A PEARL of a riverside Cork site, between the gates of UCC and the city centre, is for sale for €2.5m.

State-owned AIB has pocketed €250,000 from the €295,000 sale of one of Independent TD Mick Wallace’s main firm’s four Temple Bar apartments.