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

Up until a few years ago, Derek Quinlan epitomised the property bubble that had engulfed Ireland. With his empire now mostly in the hands of Nama, Michael Clifford profiles the man who once flew the Tricolour over London

DEVELOPER Derek Quinlan has been ordered by the Commercial Court to repay €6.5 million to Bank of Scotland.

THE Doyle Hotel Group reduced its pre-tax losses from €75.5 million to €25m last year.

IN 2007, the three families behind the Jurys Doyle hotel group decided to sell a sizeable chunk of the business.

NAMA has instructed renowned international auction house Christie’s to sell 14 works of art reportedly owned by property developer Derek Quinlan.

A TAXMAN turned international investment tycoon has lost control of his exclusive Dublin property portfolio as Ireland’s “bad bank” chases his debts.

A tax man turned international investment tycoon has lost control of his exclusive Dublin property portfolio as Ireland’s “bad bank” chases his debts.

Having loans in NAMA is no reason for some Irish developers to stop building, especially on foreign shores, writes John Hearne

THE Doyle Hotel Group saw pre-tax losses jump to €75.5 million last year following impairment charges of just more than €57m on hotel properties.

BANK of Ireland is moving headquarters to its premises in Mespil Road, a short distance from its iconic HQ in Dublin’s Baggot Street.

JURYS Inns Group has raised £60 million (€70m) to support the continued growth and expansion of its business and to strengthen its balance sheet.

Hotels chain Jurys Inn today said it had secured €69m in funding to support further growth in the UK.

Private equity group Quinlan Private has today announced that founder and chairman Derek Quinlan is to retire as chairman and partner.

THE Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) and Anglo Irish Bank will meet next week to decide how much taxpayers will lose because of a €411 million speculative investment.

THE Jurys Inns budget hotel chain has announced a further €97.4 million expansion plan for the British market, which will see it open four new properties on top of the seven already due to open during the course of this year.

JURYS Hotel are no more as the group is embarking on a €200 million rebranding and refurbishment programme which will see it move further into the five-star market.

QUINLAN PRIVATE, the Dublin-based international private investment firm, has sold a 50% stake in its Jurys Inns business to the Middle-Eastern Oman Investment Fund (OIF) for about €200 million.

Banks and other lenders are reducing the amount of money they will lend to fund private equity and leveraged acquisitions by as much as 20%, it has been revealed today.

QUINLAN Private has launched a €450 million joint venture with a Hungarian property company to develop 178 hectares (440 acres) of land in the eastern European country.

IRISH investment group, Quinlan Private has been tipped as possible bidders for the Orient-Express Hotels, which owns dozens of the world’s most prestigious hotels and restaurants as well as the famous luxury tourist train.

PRIVATE equity group, Quinlan Private and German real estate group FOM Real Estate have announced that they have formed a joint venture which sees Quinlan Private acquire a 50% interest in a recently developed office and hotel complex in the city centre of Frankfurt valued at €60 million.

QUINLAN Private, the investment vehicle run by Derek Quinlan, is reportedly the front-runner to buy the hotels brand owned by Marylebone Warwick Balfour.

The Citigroup tower in London’s Canary Wharf was reportedly sold today for £1bn (€1.5bn) in a deal that would mark the second largest single property transaction ever seen in the UK.

The Jurys Inns hotel chain is to be sold for €1.165bn.

QUINLAN Private, the investment group led by former Revenue tax inspector, Derek Quinlan, was the slight favourite to buy the chain of Jurys Inns, as the auction approached a close yesterday.

One of London’s best-appointed hotels was sold today as part of a £1.1bn (€1.6bn) transaction involving 47 Marriott sites.

MERGER fever resulted in a trebling of merger and acquisition deals in the first quarter of 2007 to €4.2 billion, according to the latest figures from Ion Equity.

The ISEQ lost 9.76 points to close at 8917.15 today.

Eircom and Quinlan Private have concluded a sale and leaseback agreement for eircom's new headquarters near Heuston Station in Dublin.

IRISH investors have sunk over €140 million into a commercial venture in Hamburg, Germany.

PROPERTY investors advised by one of the country’s top investment groups, Quinlan Private, have bought the Diagonal Mar Shopping Centre in Barcelona, Spain, in the largest ever single real estate deal in that country.

THE Four Seasons Hotel in Milan, which is owned by Irish investors, has been sold for around €200 million.

HOTELIER Paddy Kelly formally ruled himself out of a late counterbid for the Jurys Doyle Hotel group yesterday.

PROPERTY developer Sean Dunne has added to his Jurys Doyle stake in a further move to safeguard his attempt to buy the hotel group’s €260 million Ballsbridge site.

FURTHER share purchases in Jurys Doyle took place yesterday but, at this stage, the Doyle family and developer Sean Dunne have a controlling interest in the group between them.

THE number of bidders circling the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group increased yesterday with builder Sean Dunne and the Reubens brothers indicating separate bids for the company.

JURYS DOYLE shares hit €18 per share in early trading yesterday, raising expectations of a challenge to the Precinct bid of €17.50.

DEREK QUINLAN moved yesterday to dampen speculation he was about to bid for Jurys Doyle.

The mystery bidder for hotel chain Jurys Doyle does not have the support of families owning one-third of the company, it emerged today.

QUINLAN PRIVATE, the investment vehicle run by former tax inspector Derek Quinlan, has once again snapped up another major part of London.

BUILDING society EBS scooped the best mortgage provider title at the 12th annual MoneyMate and Investor Magazine awards ceremony, which took place in Dublin yesterday.