Overseas buyers are confidently once again snapping up country homes.

An Irishman based in London has picked up the former Kinsale home of Howard Holdings director Greg Coughlan for €3m — half what it cost to develop.

HOME is the sailor, home from the sea — and 5 Ard Cuan in Kinsale’s Ardbrack Heights is no bad spot to drop anchor at.

Despite a guide of €2.25m, this trophy property in Kinsale is well-placed to draw international interest, Tommy Barker reports

Due up for sale by tender on Sept 19, this 30-acre parcel of land at Galley Head, West Cork, should entice all and sundry.

The former Kinsale home of runaway property developer Greg Coughlan, of Howard Holdings, is being sold by his wife Anne with a €3.5m-plus price tag.

MOVE straight in? Extend? Knock? Don’t be hasty.

SOME of Munster’s best houses are set along and above the Scilly Walk, in Kinsale harbour — and when they routinely changed hands for millions of euros, they prompted the rather obvious quip about Scilly money.

GARDAÍ searching for a developer who owes more than €28 million in unpaid loans have been unable to find any trace of him.

BANK of Ireland has secured a €22.5 million summary judgment order on consent against a Dublin businessman over unpaid property loans.

CORK’S city manager has withdrawn an offer to troubled building firm Howard Holdings to invest over €8 million of public money in the development of a conference centre.

ANGLO Irish Bank is seeking judgment orders for €26 million arising from personal loans made to insolvent well-known businessman Brendan Murtagh, whose total liabilities are estimated at €353m.

CORK’S city manager has called on the Government to commit funding to build an iconic bridge over the River Lee to help kick-start the city’s multi-billion-euro docklands regeneration project.

GARDAÍ are checking bank accounts belonging to fugitive developer Greg Coughlan in an effort to trace his whereabouts.

APPARENTLY cleared out and largely empty, the Kinsale family home of Howard Holdings’ developer Greg Coughlan was built with the same driven sense of vision and purpose as his company’s €100 million City Quarter scheme in Cork city centre.

GARDAÍ have been given High Court approval to break into the lavish home of Howard Holdings king-pin Greg Coughlan, if necessary, to arrest him over unpaid loans of more than €28 million.

A HIGH Court judge has ordered gardaí to arrest and bring before the court a Cork businessman who is facing jail for contempt of court orders directing him to supply a statement of his assets to investors pursuing him for €28.1 million.

BUSINESSMAN Brendan Murtagh is insolvent, the Commercial Court heard yesterday. Mr Murtagh and two other businessmen are being pursued for €28.1 million by investors related to Polish property deals and all three have had total judgments for more than €60m entered against them.

A LEGAL action against three businessmen aimed at recovering loans of €31.5 million for developments in Cork has been adjourned after agreement was reached “in principle” with two of the defendants.

KEY personnel departures and project divisions are taking place at Howard Holdings, one of the country’s most aggressive development firms during the Celtic Tiger years.

THE ambitious €1 billion Atlantic Quarter project in Cork’s docklands got the green light from planners last night.

A ‘NEW Cork’ beckons down-river of the existing southern city — but locals can’t yet see it.

Cork could surpass Dublin and become one of the most attractive locations for investment in Europe, according to Greg Coughlan, chief executive of property development company Howard Holdings.

CORK needs to get its act together before it is outpaced by Dublin.

DEVELOPERS Howard Holdings have paid over €30 million for part of the former Mitsui Denman plant site in Cork harbour.

IRISH and international property group Howard Holdings, with up to €3 billion in developments worldwide, has re-organised, with key directors taking up asset ownership and control on a geographical basis.

A €25 million office block that plans to target hi-tech start-up, small and medium size (SME) businesses opened in Cork’s Docklands last night.

A MASSIVE piece of public art was unveiled in Cork’s docklands last night.

IRISH company Howard Holdings has just splashed out €400 million in site and investment deals in Cork and in Croydon, the latter a €370m investment purchase.

West Cork man Greg Coughlan has made his mark as one of the country’s leading developers as chief of Howard Holdings with major projects at home and abroad, reports Kyran Fitzgerald.

A €100 MILLION riverside development was officially opened in Cork last night signalling the start of the multi-billion euro renewal of the city’s docks.

CORK’S city manager has defended the sale of a council-owned city centre site of 0.64 acres for €2.25 million despite rocketing land prices.

Cork is to get a new landmark — a €500,000 gift from a construction firm for the support it has received from the people of the city for its building projects, the Evening Echo reports.

PROPERTY developers Howard Holdings, who have over €700 million under development, are the third quarter winners of the Cork Business of the Year Award 2004.

Tommy Barker reports from the latest hot destination for Irish cash — South Africa.