Development land just east of Cork city, at Glounthaune and near the commuter rail station, has come up for sale, described as “a prime residential development opportunity” by Frank Ryan and Seamus Costello of Cushman & Wakefield.

Retail and mixed-use retail investments worth up to €10m between two lots, in Cork city centre and Midleton in East Cork, are offered by newly re-branded commercial agents Cushman and Wakefield.

Over €5 million could be netted from the sale by auction next month of more than 25 mixed lots in a DTZ/Sherry FitzGerald auction that includes a former city pub, a former suburban Douglas shop, and bundles of apartments, aimed primarily at investors.

THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

A West Cork retail investment, previously occupied by a pharmacy has been put up for sale, with dual street access, in the heart of Clonakilty town.

Lands on the Cork side of growth town Midleton, which are part of a larger landbank zoned for strategic future housing needs, are being sold at €25,000 an acre. 

Tralee’s Rose Festival has just wound up for its 32 contestants — and also this week a mixed use development in the town comes for sale with practically an apartment or commercial unit in it for each of the Roses.

A REVAMP of the long-established Savoy Shopping Centre may be on the cards, following the circa €2m purchase of the former Quills clothes shop, at nos 106/107 Patrick Street, by the Savoy’s owners, the Clarendon Group.

A REVAMP of the long-established Savoy Shopping Centre may be on the cards, following the circa €2m purchase of the former Quills clothes shop, at nos 106/107 Patrick Street, by the Savoy’s owners, the Clarendon Group.

THE remaining zoned land of McInerney Homes, Ireland’s largest house builder during the boom, is now on the market through DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, on behalf of Kieran Wallace and Padraic Monaghan, of KPMG, the receivers.

The Irish economy’s pick-up continues to feed, and be fed by, new restaurant openings in Carrigaline and Midleton, with established operators to the fore.

TWENTY Years a Growing, or Fiche Bliain ag Fás, is a classic memoir of 20th century Irish literature — but, in the case of a Cork city office building, it’s more like a case of Five Years, and no Fás.

WITH a pick-up in fortunes at the northern end of Cork City’s retail thoroughfare, Patrick Street, a new sales push and a new agent are behind the vacant corner property at No 125 Patrick Street/Lavitts Quay, by St Patrick’s Bridge.

While white smoke is still awaited on just who has been the victorious bidder on a valuable Cork city six-acre suburban housing site at Cleve Hill, Blackrock Road, agents DTZ bring a larger, but lower profile, housing site to market.

SHOE retailers Skechers have found a second Cork shopping mall footprint, taking a 2,400 sq ft-plus mezzanine vacated by A-Wear at the Wilton Shopping Centre.

This Blackrock Road, Cork, site, is back on the market with full planning for 18 large detached houses.

Built as a mansion home for celebrated architect Sir Thomas Deane, Cork’s suburban Dundanion House is an absolutely immaculate large period house which has had commercial uses for the past half-century.

A mixed-use commercial property portfolio in Cork, Limerick and Carlow, with a rent roll of €337,000, is for sale with agents DTZ for €2m.

Retailer Lidl is the first of two German discount chains to make a strong foothold in Cork city centre, opening today in Cornmarket Street, ahead of Aldi’s plans to locate in the ground floor of the Elsyian tower.

ZONED development landbanks assembled by the Fleming Group over the past decade is coming up for sale in Blarney, Mallow and Clonakilty — and some may sell for little over farm value, and quite possibly to previous farmer owners of the lands.

A CHANGE of retail brand is on the cards, with the planned €4m sale of a modern supermarket in Cork harbour town, Passage West.

CHUNKS of land like this 56-acre block at Aherla More, Aherla, Co Cork, don’t come up for sale very often.

THREE Northern Irish paramilitary factions announced the destruction of their illegal arsenals yesterday, 24 hours before an amnesty on the movement of weapons by groups carrying out decommissioning ends.

THE decision of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) to end violence showed Northern Ireland was leaving the horrors of its past behind, it was claimed yesterday.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen, along with his predecessor Bertie Ahern and other FF office-holders, attended Tony Gregory’s funeral this week. No doubt, from their point of view, this a very proper thing to do.

IN life, Tony Gregory pulled no punches in cutting through the pomposity of politics. And, in death, his close colleagues maintained that tradition.