Britain’s economy may slip into recession next year following the vote to quit the EU.

Home prices in the best areas of central London fell by the most since June 2009 in the six months through February as turmoil in financial markets and higher taxes deterred buyers.

A LIMERICK City bank building, on O’Connell Street and Bedford Row, is being sold for as much as €10m — a recent Munster-bank investment sale price record.

Residential property prices have fallen for the second consecutive month in the wake of new lending restrictions imposed by the Central Bank.

Thursday of last week, a gathering of building surveyors, QSs and estate agents in their professional body the SCSI heard that their attendance - of 1,250 diners- for a black-tie function was “a very good barometer of the growing confidence in the economy and our industry.”

A RECENTLY let, double-tenanted building on Cork’s suburban Douglas Road, by St Finbarr’s Hospital, is up for sale as an investment, for €1.5m.

Blackstone Group plans to buy about €100m of Dublin office space as Ireland recovers from Western Europe’s worst property crash, people with knowledge of the matter said.

UK property investors are starting to look for opportunities outside London as foreign money floods into bricks and mortar in the capital, leading property agent Knight Frank has said.

A West of Ireland luxury island retreat developed a cost of over €9m by Nadim Sadek — who appeared on the Secret Millionaire programme last year — has been sold by a receiver for over €2.85m.

It might be worth buying a boat for the house viewings at Lough Derg — there’s a rapidly growing mix of waterfront period homes here for sale, many for millions of euro.

Farmland prices in England rose by 0.4% in the first three months of the year, having lost 1.7% in the second half of 2011, according to the Knight Frank estate agents.

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

A seven-bedroom house in London’s upmarket Mayfair district will likely set a British record rent of £433,000 (€522,000) per month as landlords cash in on demand for space during this summer’s Olympic Games.

WITH the brand new year cranking into gear, thoughts of buying a first home, or even trading up, will be orbiting the minds of many.

A DUBLIN home formerly owned by Derek Quinlan, once one of Ireland’s richest men, may be sold and used by the Belgian embassy, according to reports.

DUBLIN is the second most expensive city in Europe behind London in which to rent prime shopping centre unit space, according to a new report.

IRISH house prices fell by one of the sharpest levels worldwide in the last year.

London: Prime residential land prices in London rose for the first time in nine months during the first quarter, even as urban values elsewhere in England continued to decline, Knight Frank LLP said.

HOUSE prices fell in Ireland by more than anywhere else in the world last year.

THE annual Knight Frank land survey throws up some interesting conclusions this year — a stabilisation in land prices, despite a continuing slide in the average per acre, with an increase in land prices in the greater Dublin area.

Property editor Tommy Barker rounds up some of Munster’s, and the country’s biggest house movers in 2010.

Estate agents Knight Frank today posted a huge rise in profits but warned a slower and more uncertain period lay ahead for the UK property market.

THIS time last year there were no farm sales recorded in the Dublin region by estate agent, Knight Frank – the big news item of that year’s report.

A LOT of house, a lot of history (try 250 years!), and a good modicum of land comes with Lisnabrin house at Curraghglass, near Tallow in west Waterford.

OFFICE rents have plunged in Dublin but Ireland’s capital is still among the top 10 most expensive locations in Europe.

THERE’S money in muck, they say, and there was certainly money for Muckridge House.

SALES of Irish farmland fell significantly in 2008 for the second year running, which was in accordance with expectations.

Pop star and UFO fan Robbie Williams’ imminent move to a £7m country house may be as much to do with its location in an extra-terrestrial hotspot as his desire to rejoin Take That, it emerged today.

Law firm William Fry and property consultancy, Knight Frank will jointly host a conference in Portlaoise next Saturday, July 12, aimed at advising sports clubs on issues surrounding the sale of club lands to secure future finance.

BALTIMORE, repeatedly sacked by pirates, is still regularly colonised from the sea, only this time the swashbucklers are driving RIBs and other powerful motorboats, they wear chic lifejackets and carry nothing more offensive than a razor-sharp platinum credit card.

THE number of high net worth individuals in Ireland rose by 18% last year to 39,000.

KICKING off the new year sales was the possibly record-breaking result at auction for Beechy Park House at Rathvilly, Co Carlow.

A Co Carlow house owned by the family of 19th Century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli could fetch up to €6m at auction today.

Tommy Barker says this marine property is located in desirable Kinsale.

SERENITY beckons at the Grain Store on Ringarogy.