DEVELOPMENT worth €160 million, spanning eight buildings and to include 237 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 400,000 sq ft of offices and an acre of open plaza is coming on track on Cork city’s Horgan’s Quay.

PJ Hegarty & Sons have been appointed contractors for the €150m redevelopment of ESB’s Dublin 2 head office site at Lower Fitzwilliam St.

There’s a rising tide of investment and development going in around Cork harbour, and hoping to capitalise on that are the vendors of a site called Belmont Huts, back for sale with a fresh grant of planning, and at multiples of its previous sale price just over two years ago.

WITH more than 100 names down for chances to buy again, and at long last, at one of Munster’s very best developments where the two former showhouses went on first view on Tuesday, set to sell within days, it really will be a case of all’s well not ending well for most hopefuls at Earls Well.

CORK’S 19th century Ursuline Convent is going to be a trophy buy — for whoever gets to buy and finish it out — with a ready market afterward for both sales and rentals.

A historic convent in a Cork suburb which has been converted into 27 apartments, including five penthouses, is for sale as one lot guiding €3.75m price tag — nearly 14 years after it left religious order hands.

Skill and tenacity ensured triumph despite cost, Rose Martin reports.

Tommy Barker says Earls Well properties have the mark of quality

SOME of the biggest ever house schemes in Cork city and suburbs have moved into gear this week, representing thousands of new homes, and, significantly, a good range of supply just east and west of the city.