Tommy Barker takes the long view with this spectacular house overlooking Riverstick from a lofty perch.

The largest office building in Cork’s Airport Business Park has been sold to an investor, for just over €5.5 million – and, it is likely to be offered to the rapidly expanding international communications company Newsweaver, whose global HQ is already at the Airport Park.

Newly listed with agents Global Properties is Haven Lodge, one of the largest family homes around in the greater Ballinhassig area, a 15-minute spin west of Cork city and airport.

Office activity in Cork’s suburbs, especially from FDI companies, has picked up sharply in recent months, according to agent Paul Hannon of Lisney.

There’s lot of rooms fitted into 3, An Bruach, a townhouse in Cork’s Halfway village off the city to Innishannon/Bandon Road. 

I am frustrated with the sub-standard public transport in Cork. On Tuesday, after a business meeting at the Airport Business Park, I waited for a bus. When it did not arrive on time, I called the office of the service provider to enquire as to why not.

Confidence in investment recovery in the past year is evident in the €3m-plus sale to Norwegian buyers of a Bank of Ireland bank branch in Cork’s Wilton suburb.

Size: Sq m 95 (1,025 sq ft)

WITH seven new businesses/office re-locations at Cork’s Airport Business Park, the recently-purchased Cork International Airport Hotel has upward momentum behind its upgrade plans.

Rochestown Road, Cork €550,000

THERE was a poor level of office space take up in Cork in the second quarter, according to a new report from DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, with a notable increase in supply of offices, mostly from the release of second-hand properties, along with the rapidly completing City Gate Park in the Mahon suburbs where Quest are set to take 80,000 sq ft of the 250,000 new building.

CORK International Airport Hotel should fly at its €4.75 million asking price, given its quality, location — and trading figures.

IBM’s fourth-quarter earnings handily beat Wall Street’s expectations last night, helped by higher revenue from the technology icon’s lucrative software and services segments.

ALMOST 400 jobs are to be created in Cork and Carlow in the hotel and pharmaceutical sectors.

Freescale Design and Innovation Centre has announced the closure of its plant at the Airport Business Park in Cork.

An IT company has announced plans to create around 50 new jobs in an expansion of its business in Cork.

ONLINE retail giant Amazon plans to create up to 450 jobs in Cork as part of a major expansion of its Irish operations.

Global internet retailers Amazon are expected to announce the creation of up to 450 new jobs in Cork within the next 24 hours.

A HARD house to get a full picture of, Harbour Lights is one of those homes crying out for an aerial photograph — so it’s just as well that it is located right by Cork’s burgeoning airport.

CORK County Council is currently examining planning applications for 30 multi-million euro hotel/golf resorts, county manager Maurice Moloney disclosed yesterday.