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Planners with the local authority said they had a concern about the materials being proposed by Disney as it was important the security gate would not detract from the streetscape.

NOT all of the ‘Cuckoo’ funds currently snapping up Ireland’s apartment blocks in fell swoops for fat profits are vultures, predators, or pension and international funds seeking top rents.

Samcro made a foot-perfect start to his career over fences on a Down Royal card dominated by his trainer Gordon Elliott.

An international institutional investor and property developer with billions of euros in assets globally has acquired Cork city centre's Half Moon Street development, home to 700 Apple employees, for about 10% over its €34 million price guide.

Housing charities have called for direct government intervention to ease the pressures on the rental market.

Irish-based businesses are recruiting and expanding across a wide range of sectors. Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

TWO land offers in Cork that have residential development prospects come to market this week, with agents CBRE, in Whitechurch, close to Cork city, and in Mallow, in north Cork.

The 2,300 men and women taking part in Ireland’s first ever Ironman think they are built for the long haul — but the event’s host town of Youghal is well ahead of them in the staying power stakes.

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.

HAVING a major employer, with 2,500 jobs, over the boundary fence is expected to underpin developer/builder confidence in pursuit of 12.5 acres in two fields, fresh to market, at Grange Cross, Ovens, west of Cork City and Ballincollig.

Five Cork Airport Business Park office buildings, totalling 120,000 sq ft, including two let to Amazon, and which had been by a Norwegian billionaire for over €15 million five years ago, have been sold off-market to an Irish/UK joint venture for over €20m.

Tommy Barker An entire apartment development with 62 units in Cork city’s suburbs is for sale, as a single lot, being offered to investors with a guide price of €17.5m.

The tallest office building so far developed in Cork City, Penrose Dock next to Kent Rail Station at up to nine storeys, is setting an even more impressive record: its first core and lift shaft is up to full height, less than a year after the €125m project on the city’s north quays first applied for planning permission.

Cork City’s formerly controversial Stapleton House finally looks fit for purpose, having lain empty since built over a decade ago.

Research commissioned by the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC) said Government had to match the level of private investment in tourism in the regions post-Brexit.

O’Callaghan Properties have placed a Cork city centre development on the market today with a guide price of €34m.

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.

University College Cork is to open a 4,000-student strong Business School in Cork city centre in what is another huge boost for the region.

BUILDER and developer appetites for development sites, especially residential ones, are to be tested in several late, and significant, 2018 Cork city and suburban sales.

CBRE has just announced the sale by private treaty, of Building 2600 at Cork Airport Business Park.

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.

Confirmation of the financial services firm Clearstream to over 70,000 sq ft, plus an optional extra of 20,000 sq ft more for 600 well-paid financial services jobs at Navigation Square on Cork city’s quays makes it one of the very largest-ever office deals in Cork city.

HAVING last sold for the equivalent of ‘small potatoes,’ and after a costly €1.5m plus rolling refurb, Youghal’s beach-fronting Walter Raleigh Hotel — named for Youghal’s most famous resident Walter Raleigh, of tobacco and potato popularising renown — is back for sale, it is increasingly profitable and now carries a €2.5 million price tag.

A postage-stamp sized site in the heart of Cork City, which was bid upon by US-based developers earlier this year up to a reported €1.3m, is among the 200 lots at the December BidX1 end-of-year online auction.

A third, institutional fund sale of a retail investment on the western section for Cork city’s main trading thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, is new to marekt.

The building that hosts Waterstones bookseller in Cork city centre is for sale for €6.25m, writes Property Editor, Tommy Barker. 

The trebling of commercial stamp duty to help foot the budget was necessary or personal taxes instead would be hiked up in future crises, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned.

Reacting to today's Budget, commercial property consultants have warned that an increase to stamp duty may deter international investors.

Currently available for rent and right in the centre of Cork city, is Stapleton House.

A number of firms plan to take advantage of the rising demand for hotel beds in Cork, writes CBRE’s Denis O’Donoghue.

THERE has been considerable focus recently on the volume of new office stock coming on stream in Dublin, both in terms of the number of schemes under construction and the volume of stock that could potentially be delivered if all schemes in the planning process materialise.

Cork’s Docklands can become a “world-class” international shipping cluster with thousands of new jobs if ambitious plans to bring the proposed International Shipping Services Centre (ISSC) to Leeside are realised.

AS CBRE prepares to open its first Cork office, new MD Brian Edwards gives an overview of the Cork commercial investment market

Located in Cork’s Carrigtwohill IDA Business Park is an investment property with an international flavour you don’t normally expect in the southern capital’s commercial market.

Cork city centre’s largest office scheme, Navigation Square, is now cleared for a €90m build commencement by the summer which could facilitate 3,000 jobs.

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.