Mercedes fans, you can exhale now. Your wait for the new E-Class will end in April.

CORK’S City centre office supply looks set to take a quantum leap forward along its quays, hot on the heels of the success of the One Albert Quay development by John Cleary Developments.

The early success of Cork’s soon-to-be largest office block will spur the commercial property market into life and help alleviate key infrastructural shortcomings in the city, according to a leading consultancy firm.

IN the first five months of 2015, office activity in Cork has been dominated by the FDI sector, with five substantial transactions completed.

There’s shades of banishing the remaining ghosts of the much-reviled Anglo Irish Bank at its building foot-prints in both Dublin and Cork cities: the Central Bank has started to convert Anglo’s vaunting vanity HQ project to new State service, while Cork’s former Anglo Irish Bank building is getting a re-brand and letting pitch after a multi-million euro purchase.

APARTMENTS built by Howard Holdings are being offered for sale for receivers KPMG, in two lots, in Cork City centre, and in outer suburban Rochestown.

A new family-run funeral home is to open in Cork City, the first such business to start from the ground up in several decades.

A NEW business cycle is hoped for at a Cork city building steeped in cycling and sporting lore — and an adjacent idle 1.3 acre site which housed another iconic Cork business is also on the letting market.

THE future of the Beamish and Crawford site at South Gate Bridge in Cork is a “no-brainer”.

I FIND it astonishing that no public drinking fountains exist in Cork city centre.

FOLLOWING a steady start to 2003, demand for new apartments in Munster grew significantly throughout the year with particular interest in properties situated in Limerick, Cork and Waterford city centres.