Yet another career beckons for Pat Burton - this time, he’s taken on the challenge of a 10,000 sq ft bar and bistro, bought from a receiver, in Cork city’s western suburbs.

Recently vacated by clothes retailer Quills, nos 106/107 Patrick Street, Cork City, are selling for €1.95m.

Nama yesterday put its first retail park portfolio on the market for a guide price of €110m.

THE former GB Services Group property at Cork’s Doughcloyne Industrial Estate, has been sold for almost 50% over its guide, at a private auction.

Confidence in investment recovery in the past year is evident in the €3m-plus sale to Norwegian buyers of a Bank of Ireland bank branch in Cork’s Wilton suburb.

A doubling of developer Michael Cotter’s Park Developments’ Irish revenue last year led to pre-tax losses narrowing sharply to €844,300.

THIS is the year of the investment sale, according to Margaret Kelleher, director of Lisney’s Cork offices, as she bring a blue-chip bank investment to market, in an equally blue-chip setting.

The property group Park Developments, owned by developer Michael Cotter, plunged further into the red last year to record a pre-tax loss of €38.4m.

THERE’S a good return to sender, or in this case to the eventual buyer, of 18a Woodbine Business Park, in New Ross, Co Wexford.

An aerial view of the retail and warehouse development scheme in Tipperary

Tommy Barker suggests you lodge an interest in former purpose-built 10-bed Kinsale B&B.

THE Kerry town once voted by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top Ten places worldwide to retire has houses cheap enough that even reduced pension retirees can aspire to.

WITH 288 houses, plus dozens more unlisted new stock, listed for sale in a town with a population of just 2000, how do you sell 40 houses quickly? Slash prices, that’s how.

CORK developers Murrayforde say the company is in a healthy state despite the appointment of a receiver.

A SECOND private bid is being made for the construction of a national children’s hospital on a non-profit basis on the western outskirts of Dublin by a development consortium.

Gillian O’Sullivan was heartbroken before the Olympics. She shares some of the steps on the journey back to fitness with Brendan Mooney.

THE Coveney farm and family home at Minane Bridge in Cork is being sold, in a record-making deal worth up to €6 million.