The largest office building in Cork’s Airport Business Park has been sold to an investor, for just over €5.5 million – and, it is likely to be offered to the rapidly expanding international communications company Newsweaver, whose global HQ is already at the Airport Park.

One of the closest, purpose-built student accommodation blocks to Cork Institute of Technology in the western suburbs has been put up for sale, guiding at €1.2 million.

In hindsight, the name Phoenix House has proven particularly apt: rising from the crash, Cork’s €20m-plus Phoenix House third generation office building a mile from City Hall has secured its first, sizeable tenant, Regus — almost 10 years after it was built.

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.

A sound warehouse investment at Cork City’s well-established Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Frankfield, near Musgraves, is for sale as an investment, offering a potential return of 9.6% per annum.

Two dozen holiday homes on the Ring of Kerry’s famed Waterville are up for sale with Lisneys, acting for a receiver, in one lot, guided at just €21,000 each.

Two dozen holiday homes on the Ring of Kerry’s famed Waterville are up for sale with Lisneys, acting for a receiver, in one lot, guided at just €21,000 each.

Bank-related group Certus are pulling out of Cork city offices they had only moved into just 16 months ago, as part of a downsizing move, as it prepares to shed 30% of its workforce and shuts offices in Cork, Dublin, Belfast and Limerick.

One unit down, one smaller one to go in East Cork’s jostling business parks this week with Lisney.

Tommy Barker reports on quay deals for future dock developments.

A new Audi car showroom has opened 100 metres away, and a new filling station, shop and food complex is nearing completion directly across the way – so what new use now for this Ardarostig, Bandon Road Cork property?

AN investment that included land, and buildings and rental income has been sold in West Cork for c €1.4m.

IN one of the biggest office deals in recent years in Cork, the Department of Social Protection has leased the 35,000 sq ft Abbeycourt House, on George’s Quay, to serve the roll-out of its Intreo employment-and-income supports services.

Details have yet to emerge as to the buyer of Clonakilty’s Waterfront site, gone sale agreed to an undisclosed buyer, in trust, after a best bids and tender process via Lisney, and likely to have been bid considerably over its initial €1.2m guide.

One of Munster’s largest stand-alone sports facilities, the Sources Health & Fitness Centre in Cork’s Tivoli is back for sale, now guiding €1.5million via Lisney, for a sizeable complex.

THERE are emerging signs of price stability in industrial rents and sale prices in Cork, says agent David McCarthy of Lisney, confirming details of two recent sales on behalf of receivers, and as the firm brings a further large Harbour Point unit to the open market.

A MODERN mixed-use investment building in Cork’s Carrigaline has been sold for around €2 million, acquired by an Irish investor via a competitive bid process.

A mixed-use development site with completed first phase in West Cork’s top tourist hub of Clonakilty is for sale with agents Lisney for €1.2m.

WHAT value Cork’s prime docklands sites now?

INTERNATIONAL buyers are expected for a clean, and significantly-sized office investment, which includes major employer Amazon, at the Cork Airport Business Park.

LOGITECH is the latest new arrival into the 750,000 sq ft Cork Airport Business Park, where 55,000 sq ft of deals have been finalised since summer, and where book-selling giant Amazon is committing to further space.

A LETTING of 11,500 sq ft has gone through under the radar at a new unit at Cork Airport Business Park.

This land at Killeagh, bought at the height of the boom for €6m, is now for sale at €275,000.

Property Editor Tommy Barker on why home owners living close to the newly expanded East Cork rail service are laughing all the way to the bank.

UP for lease on Cork city’s Model Farm Road technology park is a modern manufacturing facility - with two third-level colleges on its doorstep.

WITH extension work due to start within a couple of weeks on the Wilton Shopping Centre which sold late last year for over €80 million, a test of what new traders will want to move in to the extended centre is already in train.