The home of the late gardener and artist Brian Cross, Lakemount, is an Eden to be enjoyed and admired, writes Tommy Barker.

Two new furniture stores open this week in Cork, underlining economic recovery and increased consumer spend.

The European Central Bank has announced an historic measure to boost the Eurozone economy.

Yet another golf course has come on the market and is expected to fetch only a fraction of what was paid for it during the property boom.

An office cluster on the South Mall, in Cork City, will go to auction with Allsop Space on Wednesday, October 22, at a rough guide of €1.3m-€1.45m.

Mortgage insurance will not lead to long-term price inflation and create another property bubble but can instead be a key component of a sustainable housing market, according to a mortgage expert.

An entrepreneurial Irish property broker has made a move into the Chinese market, opening an office in Shanghai to lure cash-rich Chinese buyers to European purchases.

A large decline in the number of young Irish adults is likely to have a huge impact on future housing needs, according to a leading estate agency.

The zombie hotels dotted across the landscape are beginning to revive or die.

It was once the home of the rich and (in)famous.

When rumours reached Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury goods group LVMH, that an Irish state-run agency could seize control of developer David Daly’s three shops on London’s Bond St, he quicklyapproached him about a deal.

Three-bed, three bathroom is ideal, Tommy Barker reports

PRICES for apartments and holiday homes could fall by between 20% and 30% this year, a top property consultant has warned.

THE Government could rake in over €25 million with the introduction of an initiative for first-time buyers.

EMPTY houses in Dublin have halved over the last 18 months as owners push to rent their properties.

ESTATE agents Savills have pointed out that although the many merits of the Government’s changes to the penal stamp duty regime have been widely commended following the budget announcement, a thought must be spared for those potential first-time buyers who have now been brought into the net.

TRACKER mortgage customers were again given a reprieve from rising interest rates yesterday with the European Central Bank (ECB) holding rates at the record low 1%.

WHAT price an extra two bedrooms? About €55,000, going on two different house offerings above Cork city’s St Luke’s Cross at Gardiner’s Hill.

THE way has been cleared by An Bord Pleanála for more than 100 houses and apartments on a prime Douglas Road site in Cork city.

Nervous investors tasted “bear market” territory today as fresh economic gloom hit the UK’s leading shares.

PROPERTY investors advised by one of the country’s top investment groups, Quinlan Private, have bought the Diagonal Mar Shopping Centre in Barcelona, Spain, in the largest ever single real estate deal in that country.