Maryborough, Cork, €385,000

A ban on property developers who are in Nama from buying back their own loans may eventually be lifted if the agency is still seeking to offload assets prior to being wound up in 2020.

There have been 12 planning permissions and alterations to grants of planning at the Forest Hill development — one of a select, very small handful of new home sites that have managed to stay open, building and selling, during the downturn.

THE former Nemo Rangers site, easily developed and in a cracking inner-suburban setting in Cork City, was expensively acquired by the Fleming Group, and is now for sale for its receivers.

A TRUE litmus test of who’s left with an appetite to build new houses, on one of Cork city’s best residential sites, is on the cards for early in 2013.

New phase of Ovens development from O’Callaghan Properties for sale, Tommy Barker reports.

A construction firm boss says the completed stock in Cork is equivalent to just three months normal demand, writes Tommy Barker

THREE reception rooms, four bedrooms, a lot of garden, and a cul de sac setting facing a green, are all to the favour of 56 Wrenville, a detached family home on the Kinsale road just outside Carrigaline in Cork.

Astra’s Forest Hill development in Carrigaline, Co Cork, is attracting huge buyer interest.

BUILDER Stephen McCarthy’s company Astra Construction does exactly what he says he does on the large advertising billboard, entering his home turf of Carrigaline.

CORK County Council officials are to prepare a report on the number of building projects which feature social and affordable houses, amid fears that developers are trying to dodge their obligations.

HERON’S WOOD development in Carrigaline has come up trumps for its hundreds of occupants and also its builder, Stephen McCarthy of Astra Construction.