HIGH vacancy levels on Cork City’s South Mall may finally be reversed, with an overall rise in the economy, and in the demand for professional services and indigenous offices.

WITH a sale just agreed on a Kinsale apartment investment that had a €465,000 price and which attracted 30 inquiries and ten bidders, agents Savills can expect a similar level of interest in a prime quayside site in the same seaside tourist town.

A MIXED used building in the heart of harbour town Kinsale is for sale, with seven apartments, office space and ground floor commercial use — all for €250,000-plus.

Farmer interest in the short term, with a view to longer-term development potential, is early to the fore in the sale of 45 acres of zoned land on the edge of Midleton, East Cork.

FUNDS from the sale of a strip of high-profile land at Cork city’s Turners Cross/Kinsale road are to be used to fund pitch improvements and capacity expansion for RABO Direct Pro 12 games in Cork City

THE former Lovetts’ Restaurant in Cork City’s suburbs is back for sale as a development opportunity with planning for 19 units: it is priced at €500,000 with Savills agents, Isobel O’Regan and Sam Daunt.

FIVE Munster bank branches are being offered individually for sale, in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, with AIB likely to receive around €700,000 in total from the sales.

Woodcock Grove, associated with toffee makers Cleeves, has been switched to self-catering cottages, writes Tommy Barker.

THIS tidy 46.5 acre holding at Kilvealton, Mallow, Co Cork, had drawn strong interest already for selling agent Savills.

A GOOD bit of local history comes with Listowel’s Gurtenard House – home to a local TD, Dan Moloney, in the mid-1900s, lived in for a while by a land agent, but also an occasional home in the late 1800s to the Earl and Countess of Listowel.