IT’s all about the timing — and the agents offering a shopping centre developed almost a decade ago and largely still unlet are hoping the time is right for a swoop, offering a 9% return, on a €1.9m sale, of a sizeable north Cork town centre that cost a reported €20m to deliver.

An entire shopping centre investment, with 16 vacant shop units, 450-space multi-storey car park, and six office units is for sale in market town Charleville via Savills — for €950,000.