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

A third, institutional fund sale of a retail investment on the western section for Cork city’s main trading thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, is new to marekt.

Hot on the heels of the circa €4m investment sale of the former Pavilion retail unit on Cork city’s prime shopping thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, comes another section of the 1921-built ex-cinema.

Tommy Barker reports on a superb family home which has road, rail and river access for commuting.

Two Cork bars, one a classic of the old-school, the other a modern bar and restaurant built in 2008 are new to market, being sold as well-trading entities.

PROPERTY fund IPUT, with some €2bn in investments and which celebrates 50 years in the investment game this year, is seeking to offload three Cork city centre retail investments at the western end of Patrick Street, guiding €9.5 million, or a c 6.15% yield.

New to market, in an off-main road setting is No 8 Cahergal Avenue, a well-kept three-bed semi-d north of Cork city’s St Lukes’ Cross, priced at €270,000 by Sherry FitzGerald.

The search for new restaurant outlets in Cork city centre is seeing new arrivals cannibalise older traders and throws up lifespan questions for some long-established eating houses.

When last offered for sale, No 2 Springfort had a €750k guide. It’s now guided at €445,000 and is well worth viewing.

 

Tommy Barker says this Tower, Blarney home is already attracting offers.

New tenants have been secured for two substantial office suites in Cork, done to a 3G specification including at 6 Lapps Quay, according to Paul Hannon of Lisney.

A waterfront slice of old Cobh, and Queenstown before it, has come up for sale, with some novel additional features.

Tommy Barker says potential buyers need to join the queue for this top-class Rochestown semi-d.

As Tommy Barker discovers, from humble beginnings, a one-time modest hillside cottage above Glanmire is now something way more spectacular.

WHAT’S probably the biggest bar complex outside of Cork City centre has come up for sale in boom-town Ballincollig, with a price tag to match.

Cork’s Academy Street and its adjacent Huguenot Quarter is coming out of recessionary doldrums — and is becoming a foodie quarter: a slew of new restaurants has arrived, with more to come.

IF an army marches on its stomach, and an economy on its retail and restaurant expansion, then things are clearly picking up in Cork - with knives, forks and chopsticks at the ready in the ‘Asian Street Feud’ moves.

A bar with name that sums up its catchment is up for sale: it’s the Thirsty Scholar, on Western Road/Lancaster Quay, near UCC, the Mercy Hospital and The River Lee Hotel which changed hands last year for €25m.

Pouladuff, Cork City €170,000

One of the largest, and best trading pubs on Cork city’s Northside, the 9,000 sq ft Groves in Blackpool, has been put to market by a receiver for €525,000, via agents Behan Irwin Gosling.

Sq m 67 (725 sq ft)

A Kinsale bar and night venue is back for sale a year after it last changed hands — and in a far better, updated condition.

Size: 61 sq m (650 sq ft)

Location: Cork City, €139,000

TWO top Munster bars, one in Cork City’s suburbs, the other in East Cork, have come up for sale for a receiver, with best bids sought by the end of July.

A recovery in trade in one of Cork’s city centre’s under-performing streets — Academy Street — is heralded with the opening this weekend of a new restaurant, CoqBull, which replaces hospitality supremo Jay Bourke’s long-established Cafe Bar Deli.

Number 25, Alden, is an unusual offering in that it’s a three-bed, detached house with a roomy extension to boot, says Tommy Barker

Size: 83 sq m (900 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 140 (1,500 sq ft)