Glanmire’s Ballinglanna 600-home development has extra incentives under LIHAF initiative, finds Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker says this mid-terrace three-bed in Elden, Douglas will have broad home hunter appeal

What once was a ‘mess,’ now is both a tidy and a healthy investment.

Delivery of new office stock in Cork city looks set to calm recent rent growth, with current peaks now standing at €350 per square metre or €32.50 per square foot, according to a new specialist sector report.

THE last Richmond, Blackrock Road house that featured in these pages ended its editorial exposure with the verdict “Likely to fly.”

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

AN overseas property investment company acquired over 300 apartments in Cork in 2018, in two strong swoops for €67m combined - instantly making it the region’s largest PRS [Private Rented Sector] landlord to date.

AN overseas investment fund, as yet unconfirmed, is the buyer of the c€30 million residential-led investment sale of the City Square development, in Cork City’s Blackpool, which has a weekly income of €40,000, or c €2m per annum.

THE quiet market sale of a €30m-plus residential development, totalling 165 apartments in Cork’s Ballincollig, is likely to see a continuation of overseas buyers and funds now looking for multi-family investments of scale, outside of the Dublin market.

Permission for a 608-house development in Cork has been approved by An Bord Pleanála, under new strategic housing development (SHD) guidelines designed to fast-track new homes and student apartments to tackle the housing crisis.

Ireland’s tallest residential tower, the Elysian in Cork City centre, has been sold for over €90m to global property investors Kennedy Wilson.

THE imminent sale of the Elysian tower development to an as-yet unconfirmed international fund, with 217 fully let apartments and commercial units at what’s understood to be a 5% return, may see a snowball effect of REITs and funds interested in Cork city’s multi-family unit sector.

A number of residents’ associations are to lodge objections against one of the biggest housing projects ever proposed in Co Cork.

Councillors are warning that a proposed multi-million euro housing development cannot proceed in an already traffic-congested town without an advance major upgrade of a seriously inadequate road infrastructure.

It seems like it’s missing a few vowels, but this home has just about everything else, writes Tommy Barker.

Focus on providing an urban framework that injects life to our city centre, writes Peter O’Flynn.

A decade after completion, and having weathered the economic crash, Cork’s iconic Elysian tower and its 211 flanking apartments are now fully occupied.

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.

Tommy Barker says new, upmarket schemes west and east of Cork city will spur resales – and gossip.

A ready-to-build residential site within a few minutes walk of EMC/Dell in Cork’s Killumney and three miles from Ballincollig has come to market, where average cost per ‘stand’ to build on is running at €55,000. It equates to €563,000 per acre.

Set to move from war-mongering and munitions provisioning to worship and prayer is the former Gun Store, a relic of Cork’s Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

The housing crisis will never be solved unless a national property strategy includes the Government, local authorities, and the private sector, according to one of the country’s most well-known developers.

The last time this house appeared in these pages, it didn’t actually exist... except on paper, and in the plans with which it was offered for sale.

Dublin developer marks its arrival down south with a smart-looking        scheme of semi-ds in Cork’s tourism capital, writes Tommy Barker

Motor dealers Johnson & Perrott are poised to invest €15m in a new, third dealership location for their Cork City-based business.

US-based IT semi-conductor and wireless communications firm Skyworks Ireland has moved into the ground floor of Cork city’s tallest building, The Elysian.

Auctioneer Florence Gabriel of Sherry FitzGerald launches No 18 at €350,000, and it’s quite the typical original layout.

Developer brothers Michael and John O’Flynn are suing the Data Protection Commissioner over an alleged delay in finalising their complaint claiming Nama has failed to provide them with all their personal data that it holds.

An ‘exercise station’ in the garden is just one of the bespoke features of this star home in Ballincollig, says Tommy Barker.

Prime space in Mount Oval Lawn is surely set to yield several sites, writes Tommy Barker.

ONE of the country’s largest financial advisory firms, Deloitte, has committed to a new, long-term lease on its upgraded Cork city centre offices.