A former orphanage property n Cork harbour’s Passage West town, on over seven acres and being sold for the HSE, carries a €750,000 asking price.

Carrying the same sort of guide price as Tony O’Reilly’s nearby summer home — Shorecliff, on six acres — the modern Marine Hotel complex in Glandore is just new to market, compete with 17 holiday units.

A commercial law firm with roots going back to 1870 is to leave its historic Cork City South Mall offices — but is keeping faith with the South Mall location, moving 40 doors away to a building 100 years younger.

Hibernian House is one of the largest office blocks in Cork City’s South Mall and is for sale at c. €4m.

It’s like a second town has been built behind the original streetscape of Macroom in mid-Cork, where the former 4Home store has come up for sale and is likely to be bought for convenience retailing.

EAGLE-EYED investors will swoop on a portfolio sale of nine apartments in Cork’s Jacobs Island — in a block called the Falcon.

STRONG covenants, market rents, and an initial yield of 10.7% are some of the attractions of an office investment for sale at Cork Airport.

A SERIES of value-driven public auction and private treaty clearances are coming out of the traps with selling agents Downing Commercial and they include five houses, in varying stages of construction on three acres with FPP for 15 dwellings, guiding €70,000.

TRALEE, KERRY €325,000

MORE musical chairs in train along Cork city’s South Mall, where ground floor showroom/offices come up to let at a competitive €18 per square foot — just a shade under the €15 psf quoted for larger overhead first and second floor space.

A modern office suite in the tax-driven Atrium development in Cork’s Blackpool has a sale price of €250 per sq ft — down from an original launch price of close to €300 psf.

A 21-year-old who assaulted another man on a night out leaving him with a permanent scar on his face has been given a three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with the final two years suspended.

Tommy Barker

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