INVESTMENT in Ireland’s commercial property sectors may hit €3bn by year’s end, after a particularly strong run-up to the end of Q3, and with several key Cork investments playing a strong regional role.

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.

INVESTMENT sales at Cork Airport Business Park are lining up for take-off, and landing, with increased regularity.

Offices developed by two of the Celtic Tiger’s busiest Munster developers, John Fleming and John Barry’s Castlelands Construction, in the Cork county towns of Bandon and Mallow have been sold to investors, in deals totalling €3m.

Tommy Barker reports on a crisply-built property that offers superb design in a great, western location.

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

Well-built Well Road home has the space and finish to give it wide appeal, writes Tommy Barker

AFTER an entrepreneurial career spanning 66 years, businessman Michael Bowes has decided to retire from his current employment, heading up the Fernhill Hotel, on the edge of Carrigaline and 100 metres from where the new N28 road to Ringaskiddy is set to run.

Tommy Barker assesses 23 new units    

AN investment with an annual rental income just shy of €90,000, with most of it coming from a bookies as ground floor tenant, is up for sale, guiding at €1.25m.

Cork City is due to get a significant new, branded Italian restaurant and deli — a Carluccio’s.

A CORK city office investment comes for sale this week for €2.5 million, just as a law firm in Ireland’s Top 20 prepares to move into it.

Global consulting engineering company, Arup, is to move into new Cork City offices, at One Albert Quay, in time for its 70th anniversary.

STRONG, five-yearly rental increases, with the next hike due in summer, 2016, underpin the attractiveness of a bank building investment, in Cork’s redeveloped Ballincollig Town Centre.

Kinsale’s Carlton House hotel, developed by Gable Holdings in 2006 on a wooded 90 acre site overlooking Cork's scenic Oysterhaven Bay at a then-reported cost of €35m, is now for sale with Savills, for receivers, guiding €4.25 million.

Expected to sell in two lots is a Killarney golf course with a 20-year pedigree, overlooking 200 year old trees, a 15th century castle - and the four-story shell of an uncompleted 120-bed hotel and lodges project.

THERE’S been any amount of work done to No 5, Castle Road, since it last changed hand , 15 years ago: today, it’s almost a new build.

Caragh Lake, Kerry €1.25 million

A shortage of new homes in Dublin and Cork has seen a surge in residential rents since January, the biggest in five years.

IT’S been just one year since we launched our new-look Irish Examiner Property and Interiors supplement. Since that April, we’ve brought news and shown you some of the very best houses to come to the Munster market.

Savills are bringing a prime retail investment premises at Main Street Ballincollig (presently tenanted by Bank of Ireland) to the market this week and are pitching the building with streetfront loggia as an investment buy.

Mortgage relief of 25% is a welcome boon for the young and for Irish property market, writes Trish Dromey

SCHOOL’S out this week for half a million Irish national school pupils — but those days ended some time ago for Waterville’s old NS, which has been on holliers since.