This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

There are already 22,000 people employed across Dublin’s Sandyford Business District — where a collection of four existing business parks has scope for 17,500 more employees, as well as further commercial and residential development.

Green Property’s Stephen Vernon has swooped on one of West Cork’s loveliest spots, he tells Tommy Barker.

A property investment company has closed a deal to buy two Dublin city centre office buildings for €32m.

The property market continues to heat up as Green REIT spent over €300m, Bank of Ireland investor Wilbur Ross announces a property joint venture and CBRE bring the €6m Donnybrook Mall to market.

One of the main beneficiaries in the recovery of the Irish property market looks set to be the real estate investment trusts (REIT), who are poised to pick up Nama’s best assets.

Green REIT plans to raise €400m through a share placement to take advantage of further investment opportunities in the commercial property market.

The Irish exchange is back in the big time, with the US also booming again, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The property investment firm Green REIT has invested €178m in three deals over the past two months, including the IN&M printworks in Citywest and the EBS headquarters in Dublin 4, as well as the commercial portfolio acquired from Danske Bank, according to its interim management statement.

The first real estate investment trust will be launched on the Irish Stock Exchange today in an effort to boost liquidity for the commercial property market.

A new company looking for investment opportunities in Irish commercial property will list on the Irish and London stock exchanges next month.

Dermot Desmond heads the list of Irish property investors with a personal fortune estimated at €1.7bn, according to trade magazine Estates Gazette’s rich list.

The five directors of property firm Green Property shared pay packages totalling €2.89 million in 2010.

GREEN Property, the company that owns Blanchardstown Shopping Centre saw pre-tax profits fall from almost €1.4 million in 2009 to €551,206 last year.

GREEN Property, the company that owns the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in Dublin, saw pre-tax profits almost double to €1.4 million last year.

GREEN PROPERTY chairman and chief executive Stephen Vernon has headed a fresh buyout of the company just two years after a €1 billion take-private deal.

GREEN PROPERTY, taken private by management two years ago, saw its profits rise by nearly 700% last year.

BRITISH retailing giant Marks & Spencer is to spend €14 million on a new store at the Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin.