A PEARL of a riverside Cork site, between the gates of UCC and the city centre, is for sale for €2.5m.

THERE are very few subjects that provoke so many different views, that touch so many conflicting agendas, and generate so much angst; there are very few subjects that can have such a devastating impact on personal and national economic well-being as property prices soaring well beyond the rate of inflation.

A new report is warning against the introduction of rent controls as a means of addressing problems in the private rental sector.

Up to 10,000 additional jobs are expected to be created in the construction sector this year, on the back of an anticipated €1 billion increase in the value of building activity during the year.

There are definite signs of improvement in the retail property sector despite actual consumer spending levels remaining volatile.

Bank of Ireland hasestablished a new €2bn fund aimed at first-time buyers and people looking to move house following the news that house prices have been increasing.

Asking prices for homes in Dublin have risen for the first time in six years, according to the latest Daft.ie house prices report, while a MyHome.ie report found average Dublin prices fell by 4.8%.

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DUBLIN office rentals are showing a mild but encouraging take-up growth, notably in smaller, more affordable units, according to new commercial property analysis.

THE housing market is on track to stabilise during the second half of the year, with estate agents seeing a jump in viewing levels and transactions.

THE property market is not dead as there are encouraging signs evident in the commercial and occupier sectors.

WITH €1 billion in debts and 650 jobs at stake, Cork developer Fleming Construction has been given breathing space after an examiner was appointed to one of its indebted subsidiaries.

Sherry FitzGerald have announced in a survey today that the average price of a second-hand property in Ireland fell by 2.4% during the final quarter of 2007.

Ecstasy with a street value of almost €1.25m was seized at Rosslare Port this afternoon following a tip-off.

INVESTORS in Irish plcs face a paperless future under plans announced yesterday to make buying and selling shares more efficient.

TO reflect its growing level of international business, the Colliers Jackson-Stops Group has announced that all its trading divisions will operate under a single brand name.

ONE of the country’s top three drug barons was reeling yesterday after gardaí dealt a blow to his trafficking operation.

US drug regulators have agreed to speed up a review of Elan’s application to market a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis.

SIMPLICITY and period styling are the look with this 2,550 square foot house near Naas in Co Kildare.

Gardai in north Dublin have arrested a man in connection with the seizure of €600,000 worth of heroin and cocaine.

Dutch police have arrested three Irish people in connection with the disappearance of another Irishman in Amsterdam before the weekend.