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

Prime office rents in Dublin are expected to jump by 18% this year, marking a fourth year of rapid growth and a more than doubling of post-recession lows.

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 investment arm of the Davy Group has made a further retail swoop on Cork city’s Patrick Street, having bought the Moderne last year for circa €4-5 million in an off-market deal.

Price increases in the Dublin office market show no sign of slowing but are instead likely to climb another 30% by the end of the next year.

The Government has been criticised for failing to lower the Vat rate for the construction sector from 13.5%, but has been applauded for its near 50% reduction of the windfall tax on rezoned land, which is hoped to result in more land being freed up for development.

Activity in the commercial property sector reached exceptionally high levels in the summer and is expected to escalate as vendors scramble to take advantage of the soon-to-expire capital gains tax waiver, introduced as part of Budget 2012.

Prime office rents in Dublin are expected to rise by another 10% in 2014, following a 15% increase last year.

Property firms have enjoyed a €13.3m bonanza from providing property valuations to the National Asset Management Agency, new figures show.

DUTCH-owned ACC Bank is continuing its disposal of Irish bank branches in 2010, it has just confirmed at year’s end.

A BANK selling – at auction. An event so close to a miracle you could almost hear the angels sing.