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.

There’s a very good specification to the three-bed semi d, 8 Ard Aoibhinn, above pretty Innishannon village on the Cork-west Cork route, and now back in favour as a commuter community for families given its easy proximity back to the city.

WITH more than 100 names down for chances to buy again, and at long last, at one of Munster’s very best developments where the two former showhouses went on first view on Tuesday, set to sell within days, it really will be a case of all’s well not ending well for most hopefuls at Earls Well.

There’s been a mix of receiver and private sales at the Ardfield development in outer Douglas, Cork — built by Fleming Construction — and prices in the past year have gone from €150,000 to €260,000, depending on the section, size and condition. 

A turning tide of development and infrastructure investment, such as the new €200 million N28 Cork Ringaskiddy Road, and €100 million port facility enlargement, may bring a new focus, and a major tenant or two to the Ringport Business Park.

While the market awaits the imminent relaunch of a handful of high-end homes at the Earls Well, Waterfall development, a former showhouse in the developers’ Fleming Construction’s original and adjacent Heatherfield scheme is on offer.

The guide for this substantial four bed detached home indicates a resurgent market, writes Tommy Barker.

<B>Tommy Barker </b>says buyers get a second chance to get into Waterfall estate west of Cork city suburbs.

A retail unit acquired in 1999 as the second ever Aldi Irish store is up for sale by tender as an investment: it’s the anchor tenant in the Westside Retail Park, Ballincollig in Cork, on a lease set to run until 2024.

AN investment that included land, and buildings and rental income has been sold in West Cork for c €1.4m.

A site with planning permission for nine detached houses, with existing houses developed by Fleming Construction, is being sold for €350,000, or under €40k a stand.

Details have yet to emerge as to the buyer of Clonakilty’s Waterfront site, gone sale agreed to an undisclosed buyer, in trust, after a best bids and tender process via Lisney, and likely to have been bid considerably over its initial €1.2m guide.

Not one, not two, not even three, but four semis are now for sale, for a receiver, at Ardfield Road, in Cork’s Grange suburb on the edge of Douglas.

IN one of the larger industrial deals in several years in Cork, a harbour site with 233,000 sq ft of buildings has been bought for close to €3m, by a waste recycling company.

A West Cork food brand, synonymous with the town of Clonakilty, has made a strategic site purchase, as part of a multi-million euro business development strategy.

Sq m: 202 (2,180 sq ft)

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country

THE former Bandon, Cork Road HQ of Fleming Construction — in receivership and with group debts of €1bn — is for sale.

It has been one of their worst fear for years — and now the nightmare has been realised.

A fine home close to the city centre sits on one acre of land Tommy Barker reports

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.

There’s a bit of steely backbone to the three-bed semi-d at 34 Ardfield Meadows, Grange, Douglas, Cork: its builders Fleming Construction pioneered their own version of steel-frame construction, and walls with sandwiches of steel and dense insulation winged their way from a massive factory in Ringaskiddy to the four corners of this country, as well as the UK.

An aerial view of the Douglas Motors site near St Finbarr’s Hospital (partially seen bottom of picture) which met strong demand before being sold.

Tommy Barker reports on a detached house sale at Waterfall, Cork

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.

For those who bought during the boom in what are now Nama pilot estates, 80:20 is disappointing, writes Louise Roseingrave

Residents say they are worried privately-owned homes will plunge in value after a local authority acquired almost a third of vacant homes for social housing.

NAMA has agreed the sale of 125 acres of land at Curraheen, Co Cork, formerly owned by developer John Fleming, to the Munster Agricultural Society and University College Cork.

A smart, stone-faced second or primary home, ready to move into.

THERE’s a vaguely American-look to the big homes at Abbotswood, off Cork’s Rochestown Road, and coming on the end of their first decade, the place is improving even further with age.

IT’S nearly new and number 11 Cois Cuain is one of the first resales in this Courtmacsherry, Co Cork estate.

SALE agreed last year, but a victim of a selling chain that resulted in a vital link breaking down, so the six-bedroom, detached house, Brackendale, on a quarter-acre Douglas site, in Cork, is being re-offered, at a reduced price.

A LIQUIDATOR was appointed by the High Court yesterday for the winding up of three insolvent companies in the Cork-based Fleming building group, which has debts of more than €1 billion.

FROM an Irish perspective the European Central Bank’s decision to leave borrowing rates at their historic low level of 1% following its monthly meeting in Frankfurt would be good news in normal circumstances.

THE future of one of the country’s largest building groups is under threat following the decision by the Supreme Court to reject a restructuring plan.

DUTCH-owned ACC bank pulled the finger out of a dyke which held back a tide of debt washing around west Cork-based developers Fleming Construction.

A SOLID, C2 energy BER rating comes with number 15, Ardfield Mews – and that only goes to show how hard it is to get into the A and B ratings.

NOW’S the time for planting bulbs for spring-flowering varieties such as daffodils. Hoping for early green shoots in their own patch of ground are the vendors of 38 Daffodil Fields in Cork.

FORGET “is there doctor in the house?” It’s now a case of “is there a doctor in the market?”