Waterford city’s Marina Hotel has been put for sale, guiding €3.2m with agents Christie + Co. The same agents offered the 54-bed Shannon Court Hotel at €1.1m in May of this year, also for Frontline Asset Management Ltd.

Planners have given the green light for the €50m regeneration of the landmark former Capitol cinema site in the heart of Cork City.

The early success of Cork’s soon-to-be largest office block will spur the commercial property market into life and help alleviate key infrastructural shortcomings in the city, according to a leading consultancy firm.

The sprawling rural escape described as a labour of love for Ryanair founder Tony Ryan is back on the market for an initial asking price of €6m.

Last week’s collective confirmation of major development projects for Cork gave a welcome fillip to everyone in the city, writes Owen O’Callaghan MD, O’Callaghan Properties 

US investors are buying European commercial property at a record pace as the dollar’s eight-month rally and struggling economies on the continent make offices, shops and warehouses cheap. 

Planning permission is today being sought for a €50m development that aims to be "a catalyst project for Cork city centre, a game changer".

A Waterford-born businessman who has lived in Australia for the last 30 years has emerged as the successful buyer of Waterford Castle, paying over €6m for the luxury hotel, set on an island on the River Suir just below the city.

Cork City Council is poised to buy two vacant landmark buildings in the city centre for development as commercial office space.

IRELAND’S signature castle hotels have been changing hands with aplomb this year – think Ashford Castle, and now Adare Manor on the hook for c €40m, while this week the illustrious roll-call is joined by the more modestly priced Waterford Castle.

Waterford Castle, a hotel and resort on an island in the River Suir two miles from Waterford City, has just been publicly placed on the international market guiding over €4.5m.

A Dublin 8 retail investment let to Tesco Express is on offer at a c 7% net initial yield. Michelle McGarry of Colliers International seeks offers around €1.6 million for the ground floor investment at 51/52 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, close to the Meath Street junction near NCAD and St James Hospital.

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.

A Bray Tesco Express sale has closed out for €2.7m, indicating a net initial yield of 8.6%.

An events centre in the heart of Cork City could play a major role in any strategy to revive the city centre, a planning expert has said.

Cork’s traditional office precinct on South Mall needs to modernise to provide the hi-tech office space which is being sought by national and international investors.

Bidders for the jewel in Cork’s €20m tourism crown came from India, Taiwan, the US, Europe, China, and Cork — with a Chinese family, the Kangs, yesterday coming up trumps.

A pristine, country house property in Co Tipperary’s horsey country, Acraboy House is a bit of a smasher — impressive, large with a good amount of accommodation, but not too big to be uncomfortable to live in and with enough of a land belt to make it a viable, country property.

The Thai-Chinese billionaire who is buying the 500-acre Fota Resort for more than €20m is likely to make further Irish investments — and spend heavily on Fota, guaranteeing its future and jobs.

The fourth richest man in China is on the brink of a €20m-plus deal to buy the prestigious Fota Island Golf and Hotel resort in Cork.

An Irish consortium of buyers is among the handful of bidders who have made the final cut on offers for the Fota Island resort, which is likely to make €20m for Nama.

BIDS are at an advanced stage and heading towards €20m from European and Asian parties on the Fota Island Resort in Cork harbour this month, as Kerry’s Parknasilla gem joins Fota on the international sales market.

A wealthy Thai businessman with an impressive portfolio of Asian golf properties is one of the favourites to become the new owner of the prestigious Fota Island Resort in Cork, with a sale expected to go through this month.

AFTER a number of low-key and low-profile but significant viewings, the 500-acre Fota Island Resort finally gets its formal market launch this week.

A house bought for €3.3m in a bidding battle at the height of the property boom is back on the market for €395,000.

FRANCE’S richest man and LVMH’s chief executive, Bernard Arnault, is in talks to buy three trophy stores on London’s most expensive shopping street for £300 million (€349.5m), from the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), a source said.

THE 500-acre Fota Island Resort in Cork harbour, which is expected to make between €20 million and €25m, is to get an international sales campaign in January.

FILE under “reasons to be very cheerful”.

DON’T spare the rod – you can angle to your heart’s content at this River Suir fishing lodge at Knocklofty.

Property prices in the once red-hot Middle East boomtown of Dubai plunged 41% in the first three months of this year.

An international firm of property consultants has ranked central Dublin as the eighth most expensive city in the world for renting office space.

TO reflect its growing level of international business, the Colliers Jackson-Stops Group has announced that all its trading divisions will operate under a single brand name.