Almost €4 million was transacted in a Cork-based property auction, with 15 of 25 lots selling under the hammer, at an inaugural DTZ/Sherry FitzGerald southern auction with a further DTZ commercial property auction due with 15 more lots, on July 27 in Dublin.

Site clearance works could start within weeks on a Camden Quay office building of 72,000 sq ft, and which could have a transformative impact on an old Cork city centre area less than 100m from St Patrick Street.

Over €5 million could be netted from the sale by auction next month of more than 25 mixed lots in a DTZ/Sherry FitzGerald auction that includes a former city pub, a former suburban Douglas shop, and bundles of apartments, aimed primarily at investors.

Who will go head to head with Dalata in bidding for the investment sale of the Maldron Hotel, in the historic heart of Cork City centre, under Shandon Steeple?

It’s almost a pub quiz question for Cork’s version of University Challenge: for two marks, when was the fabled Western Star Pub demolished.

An income of €91,000 per annum is on offer in the €1.1m sale of a Douglas ‘village’ office investment in Cork.

Irish Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara is in the running to buy a massive retail park in her native Limerick.

THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

CORK’S City centre office supply looks set to take a quantum leap forward along its quays, hot on the heels of the success of the One Albert Quay development by John Cleary Developments.

THE property investment market in Ireland’s second city hit new and record highs in 2015, far out-stripping 2014’s much-recovered market, according to a new report due shortly from DTZ Sherry FitzGerald.

After almost a decade in the doldrums, renewed activity is expected across a number of fronts in Cork city’s docklands and quays in 2016, with knock-on effects on major sites downriver in Cork harbour including Marino Point and Ringaskiddy.

Investment property activity is continuing through to year’s end in and around Cork city centre streets by the Penneys site, which is expected to go forward for planning permission next month for a major redevelopment, after a two-year site assembly

New tenants have been secured for two substantial office suites in Cork, done to a 3G specification including at 6 Lapps Quay, according to Paul Hannon of Lisney.

A strong development-play deal close to €6.5m is in final stages of negotiation, on Cork city’s prime city centre 0.8 acre development site at the Square Deal furniture store.

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.

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 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.

Two different property offers, one to let, the other to buy, are on the market at 6 Lapps Quay, in the heart of Cork city, next to the Clarion Hotel, bus station and near the rapidly developing One Albert Quay.

A hot-in-demand Cork suburban residential building site gets offered for sale for the third time for its owners Eir, the new name for Eircom.

A broad portfolio in Cork and Waterford of land, houses, sites and other investments associated with developer Dan Mulvihill of Rossdale Enterprises has been put to market, expected to fetch €10-15 million, making it one of the region’s largest non-retail portfolios to be off-loaded.

Recruitment firms on the move and in an upward trajectory themselves can be seen as a bellweather of change in the wider economy. Thus, the denizens of Cork’s South Mall will be glad to see the arrival of not one, but two such firms to the South Mall: FRS Recruitment, and IT recruitment specialists Stelfox.

Struggling retailer Tesco is seeking to recoup tens of millions of euros, from the sale of 25 development sites it had amassed for new stores or expansion, in 16 counties around Ireland.

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

Lands on the Cork side of growth town Midleton, which are part of a larger landbank zoned for strategic future housing needs, are being sold at €25,000 an acre. 

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.

Tralee’s Rose Festival has just wound up for its 32 contestants — and also this week a mixed use development in the town comes for sale with practically an apartment or commercial unit in it for each of the Roses.

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.