A third of the cost of us producing a house is taxed, or controlled by the state, between Vat and planning contributions.

Some of Munster’s top business leaders have called for taxes on the construction industry to be reduced in order to boost housing supply in the region.

A Cork City quayside prime redevelopment block may be about to move from trough to peak, with the planned sale of a key corner building, McLaughlins, which even — appropriately — has a

Building works are set to start up again after a 12-year hiatus on Lancaster Quay in Cork City with a €40m investment in 88 apartments aimed squarely at the high-end rental market.

TWELVE years after the Irish property, construction, and economic crash, work is finally set to start on the very first non-student apartment development of any scale in Cork City in that time period, in an investment put at €40m.

Work on the stalled Cork event centre could begin within months after it emerged that the State is poised to more than double its original investment to €50m.

Plans for 1,100 apartments on a key site in Cork’s south docks are in the pipeline, it has emerged.

Commercial property buyers have the chance to place an enticing item in the shopping basket as Cork’s renowned Paul Street Shopping Centre has come on the market.

The recent Irish Open in Lahinch was a powerful reminder that a community working with both private and public institutions can deliver a world class success.

20 year development time-frame for 31-acre docks site

A huge €47m land deal paves the way for a near €1bn waterfront precinct on Cork’s south docks which could sustain thousands of residents and thousands of new jobs.

The long-held vision for Cork’s docklands as a thriving urban waterfront precinct has taken a major step forward after details of a landmark deal emerged.

The agri-services group Origin Enterprises says it has reached “conditional agreement” for the disposal of up to 31 acres of land it owns on Cork’s south docklands in to O'Callaghan Properties for up to €47.5m.

HAVING a major employer, with 2,500 jobs, over the boundary fence is expected to underpin developer/builder confidence in pursuit of 12.5 acres in two fields, fresh to market, at Grange Cross, Ovens, west of Cork City and Ballincollig.

Despite the fact work has not yet started on the events venue, the key players insist the project will eventually reach fruition, writes Eoin English

O’Callaghan Properties have placed a Cork city centre development on the market today with a guide price of €34m.

This development is near best in class. Tommy Barker explains why.

CONSTRUCTION work will roll from one block to another at Cork city’s largest ever office scheme, Navigation Square, over the next three years, pledged developer Brian O’Callaghan this week.

Cork City retailers need to tweak their offering to capitalise on the arrival of thousands of new workers, according to one of the developers leading the multimillion-euro regeneration of the docklands.

Developers JCD have made an off-market multi-million euro swoop on the Cork city Albert Quay site occupied for the past 50 years by family-owned Carey Tools, including the Sextant bar which was subsequently acquired by the Carey family.

Questions over how to fund the proposed events centre in Cork has left the project in limbo and the city still waiting for its first curtain call, writes Eoin English.

Tommy Barker hears of swift buyers demand for the renowned MOS Homes builders’ 210-house scheme, Heathfield, at Carriganarra.

BUILDER and developer appetites for development sites, especially residential ones, are to be tested in several late, and significant, 2018 Cork city and suburban sales.

Greenfield sites hardly come any better, or beguiling, than this. Seven acres of ‘farm’ land, recently shorn of its annual crop of maize, between the two main Douglas Roads in suburban Cork, within a walk of the city centre have just come up for sale as a truly prime development opportunity.

Deutsche Bank is poised to take over an estimated €300m in performing property portfolio loans associated with a number of O’Callaghan Properties (OCP) assets in Cork.

PLANS for a €100m residential development in Cork’s Mahon, with 413 units across six blocks including one mooted tower of 25 storeys tall by the Jack Lynch Tunnel approach is being proposed for lands owned by McCarthy Properties.

The long-anticipated sale by Nama of €300m in property portfolio loans, associated with a number of O’Callaghan Properties (OCP) assets in Cork, has been welcomed by the company itself as “very positive” and could bring fresh and further investor activity to the city.

A Cork City office building is up for sale with a €16m price tag.

Confirmation of the financial services firm Clearstream to over 70,000 sq ft, plus an optional extra of 20,000 sq ft more for 600 well-paid financial services jobs at Navigation Square on Cork city’s quays makes it one of the very largest-ever office deals in Cork city.

A WELL-SET St Patrick Street Cork city retail investment directly opposite the completed and fully occupied Capitol mixed use development, which is let to Boots Chemists and earning a current annual income of €540,000 is for sale, guiding €5.75 million.

A number of new office occupiers and sale deals are coming to an end-of-year close in the heart of Cork city, at Lapps Quay, at City Quarter, and at the Elysian, where a new walk-in medical clinic is set to open next month and where a new restaurant letting is agreed. Plus there’s 12,000 sq ft of offices at the Elysian under active negotiation via Lisney.

A new €10m revamp to Cork city’s railway station is to open to tomorrow providing passenger access to the quays for the first time.

WITH plans afoot for the €70m-plus investment property sale of the ‘old’ Roches Stores/Debenhams Cork’s store by the publicity-shy Roche family, the arrival of a neighbouring niche investment with a more modest €1.5m price tag has impeccable timing, and opportunity.

DEVELOPMENT worth €160 million, spanning eight buildings and to include 237 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 400,000 sq ft of offices and an acre of open plaza is coming on track on Cork city’s Horgan’s Quay.

Cork City Council staff have been availing of 120 free parking spaces on a first-come-first-served basis at Navigation House on Albert Quay since the sale of the former council property to development firm O’Callaghan Properties in 2008.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has withdrawn controversial comments he made about the development of Cork’s stalled event centre.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan has been described as a humble man of integrity and a true gent who support many charities discreetly and charmed all those he met.

The annual awards of Cork Business Association — which is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2017— has heard rousing calls for Cork people to embrace what they have in their city if it is to thrive to its full potential.

JANUARY’s not even over yet, but already a second Lisheen Fields home west of Ballincollig in Cork’s Ovens has come to market as a re-sale for a relocating family who are trading up, and moving closer to Cork city.

Companies considering locating in Cork may be lured by favourable terms to accommodate staff in a new, purpose-delivered, build-to-let apartment investment, as part of a proposed, mixed-used city centre project at Horgan’s Quay.

Apartments are well on the way back price-wise in Cork, with post-slump demand and values driven by location, most of all.