Person: Cearbhall Behan

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Swiss rent roll heads over a jammy €400,000 a year

A Swiss-based investor has commenced building a portfolio of Cork city centre properties, having spent close to €5 million to date, acquiring a number of well-established buildings on Oliver Plunkett Street and St Patrick’s Street, with over 12 tenants combined, and getting an average 8% rent return on his purchases.

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Clancys may become aparthotel

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Former B&B and filling station on quayside of tourist hotspot Kinsale

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Buy-in to busy nightlife with Washington Street area’s James Street 1767

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Get your orders in for two Cork bars

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Mid-1900s home in Turners Cross, Cork, guided at €270,000

Leaping Salmon pub in the heart of Blackrock comes to market

For sale for the first time in a quarter of a century is The Leaping Salmon pub, in the heart of Blackrock village, in Cork.

Thu, 06 Oct, 2016

Invesco and Newsweaver take substantial office space in Cork

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.

Thu, 03 Dec, 2015

Increase in Cork pub and club sales as Redz joins the market

While word is still awaited on who makes up the consortium in the final stages of the €2 million purchase of the 12,000 sq ft Treacy’s bar and restaurant in Cork’s Ballincollig for receivers Grant Thornton, its selling agent brings two more Cork bars to the open market.

Thu, 12 Nov, 2015

Historic old Town Hall guiding at €350,000

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

Thu, 05 Nov, 2015

Biggest pub sale bar none in Ballincollig

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.

Thu, 05 Mar, 2015

That’s Zamora: wine-and-food restaurant opens on Academy St

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.

Thu, 08 Jan, 2015

Thirst for former bars as buyer interest hots up

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.

Thu, 20 Nov, 2014

Modern take on living over the shop in Cork’s Sunday’s Well

The former Village Inn has a retail premises, apartment and roof garden.

Thu, 14 Aug, 2014

New lease of life for Academy Street

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.

Thu, 05 Jun, 2014

Drink up to new store

WHAT a name for a bar to have to trade and labour under — The Poor Relation Grocery and Pub.

Thu, 29 May, 2014

Starter homes: Rochestown, Cork €350,000

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

Sun, 02 Mar, 2014

Bar sales bring some cheer

With five Cork pubs sales closed in 2012 ranging in value for €200,000 to €1.5m, and another one or two close to completing, the year has shown a marked increase in activity compared to the previous four years.

Thu, 20 Dec, 2012

Horseshoe Inn sales pitch

After a period of extra time in the bar trade at Cork city’s legendary soccer pub dug-out, long-time publican Neil Murphy and family are calling game over at The Horsehoe Inn — a bar that spills over into the 7,500 person capacity FAI stadium at Turners Cross.

Thu, 15 Nov, 2012