There are already 22,000 people employed across Dublin’s Sandyford Business District — where a collection of four existing business parks has scope for 17,500 more employees, as well as further commercial and residential development.

Irish property development company Green Property has sold a high-spec office block in central London for nearly €261m.

Green Property’s Stephen Vernon has swooped on one of West Cork’s loveliest spots, he tells Tommy Barker.

The Irish exchange is back in the big time, with the US also booming again, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

So there is life in the old dog yet. After a long and extended period, during which the end of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) was being heralded by some, a fresh wave of companies and equity issuance suggests something different is afoot.

Greek and British businessmen at the centre of a mass property fraud have been found guilty of swindling £740m (€891m) from AIB.

LARRY Goodman’s purchase of the old Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot St in Dublin — announced last weekend — is a remarkable story.

A top London estate agent described AIB’s conduct as “strange” in response to an alleged fraud case.

Green Property is to spend millions of euro on renovating one of Liverpool’s most famous buildings in a bid to attract tenants.

Dermot Desmond heads the list of Irish property investors with a personal fortune estimated at €1.7bn, according to trade magazine Estates Gazette’s rich list.

AIB gave “unusually favourable” terms to Dublin-based Green Property to take an €800m property portfolio off its hands, former chairman Dermot Gleeson has told jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London.

Irish/UK investment and development giant Green Property has been cleared for a joint £500m (€622m) Vauxhall, London borough development, which at 58 storeys will include Western Europe’s tallest residential tower.

DOUGLAS Court Shopping Centre, which has sensationally been placed in receivership, is likely to be managed ’as-is’ for some time before being offered for sale — and its likely value is around €30m, according to property sources.

The five directors of property firm Green Property shared pay packages totalling €2.89 million in 2010.

GREEN Property has signed an agreement with Lloyds Banking Group making it favourite to manage any of the bank’s €1 billion worth of commercial property assets should they go into receivership within the next five-to-seven years.

GREEN Property, the company that owns Blanchardstown Shopping Centre saw pre-tax profits fall from almost €1.4 million in 2009 to €551,206 last year.

GREEN Property, the company that owns the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in Dublin, saw pre-tax profits almost double to €1.4 million last year.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern is facing further questioning in the witness box at the Mahon tribunal in September, the Irish Examiner has learnt.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan recalled the disaster that faced his massive building project for land in Co Dublin after local election results 17 years ago.

CORK businessman Owen O’Callaghan has described an allegation that he paid £50,000 to former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for assistance on a property development in west Dublin as “absolute and total rubbish”.

A PROPERTY developer has rejected any suggestion that his company tried to conceal political donations to Liam Lawlor by describing payments to the late TD as consultancy fees.

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD Marian McGennis yesterday rejected suggestion there was anything improper about her nomination to the Senate in February 1993 by former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan picked up the tab when Fine Gael councillor Therese Ridge and lobbyist Frank Dunlop flew to Cork as part of her canvass for the 1993 Seanad election, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

A FORMER Department of Finance principal officer Liam Murphy told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday that a special tax status for Blanchardstown Shopping Centre had been ruled out in 1990, three years before Taoiseach Bertie Ahern allegedly received £30,000 for blocking the centre’s bid.

CIVIL servants were not aware property developer John Corcoran was making substantial political donations to Fianna Fáil while urging then Environment Minister Padraig Flynn to give special tax concessions to his Dublin shopping centre at Blanchardstown, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is facing a fraught canvass as he is likely to have to testify before the General Election at the Mahon Planning Tribunal into payment allegations.

Commercial property consultancy Harrington Bannon has been acquired by European commercial real estate services group Atisreal, a subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group, in a deal worth close to €10m.

PROPERTY developer, Tom Gilmartin, has told the Mahon Tribunal that he was informed Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was paid £80,000 by a millionaire businessman for planning favours during the mid-1990s.

West Cork man Greg Coughlan has made his mark as one of the country’s leading developers as chief of Howard Holdings with major projects at home and abroad, reports Kyran Fitzgerald.

THE value of management buyout (MBO) activity is set to soar to more than €10 billion this year, according to IIB Bank.

Patrick Curran, managing partner of property consultants Harrington Bannon, talks to David Clerkin.

GREEN PROPERTY chairman and chief executive Stephen Vernon has headed a fresh buyout of the company just two years after a €1 billion take-private deal.

GREEN PROPERTY, taken private by management two years ago, saw its profits rise by nearly 700% last year.

CONVICTED former council official George Redmond has rejected allegations that he was “on the payroll” of a property developer while working with Dublin County Council in the late 1980s.

BRITISH retailing giant Marks & Spencer is to spend €14 million on a new store at the Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin.

Marks & Spencer has entered into an agreement with Green Property to open a store in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, Dublin.

PLANS by developer Owen O’Callaghan to transform his Liffey Valley complex into a designated town centre for west Dublin were taken a stage further this week.

MERGER and acquisition activity in the third quarter maintained its upward momentum but the value of completed deals fell by 82% year-on-year to €1.5bn, it emerged yesterday.

GALEN’S US-based takeover suitor Barr Laboratories will have to pay over €2 billion, as the Northern Irish pharmaceutical company becomes the latest company lining up to quit the Irish Stock Exchange.

FALLING share prices led to a record year for company buyouts in Ireland with deals hitting €5bn in 2002, lead by the €3.5bn delisting of Jefferson Smurfit.

ITS sheer size will ensure that institutions come back into the fray in the tender bidding process for a prime retail investment on Cork’s Patrick Street.