Investment in the country’s commercial property market is running at 25% higher than at the sector’s peak in 2006.

A former director of Nama has been appointed to the board of one of the country’s leading commercial real estate funds.

Cork camogie player Aoife Murray has experienced both sides of the coin, the ecstasy of All-Ireland glory, the heartache of defeat.

Aviva Investors has sold AIB’s Ballsbridge headquarters in Dublin for a sum believed to be in the region of €70 million, which is a loss of over €100m on the amount paid for the property at the height of the boom in 2006.

There has been a 77% increase in the number of retail businesses that have failed this year compared to the same period last year, according to Insolvency-journal.ie.

Ireland’s most trusted leader is EMC Ireland’s vice-president and managing director Bob Savage, according to the Great Place to Work Best Workplace Awards.

US companies were behind almost 40% of offices bought or leased in Dublin in 2011 and the trend is likely to accelerate this year, according to estate agents.

PRIME rents in Dublin have hit bottom, according to one of the country’s top commercial property agencies but there are no signs of rental growth for this year.

The Government has filled four senior roles within the National Asset Management Agency as the State's bad bank prepares to take receipt of the first loans from financial institutions.

Buyers of commercial property in Ireland have seen their investments more than halve in value in two years according to new figures from consultants Jones Lang LaSalle.

IRELAND’S potential exposure under the Government’s Bank Guarantee Scheme has fallen from a high of €427 billion at the beginning of the year to €346bn by the end of June.

American car giant General Motors said it could sell some of its British properties, then lease them back, in a bid to raise funds.

IRISH investors spent €3 billion buying foreign properties in the three months to June of this year bringing the total spend this year to €5bn.

THE reintroduction of tax on land in order to restore financial independence to local authorities would be inefficient, would yield little and would completely distort the housing market, says John Mulcahy, managing director of major international property advisors Jones Lang LaSalle.

THE cheque, to the tune of €107 million, is in An Post for a site by Dublin’s Red Cow Roundabout.

IRISH property investors have snapped up landmark buildings in Prague and London in deals totalling more than €500 million.