Nine out of eleven lots, representing 14 out of 16 properties, sold this week at a packed DNG Creedon auction in Cork City’s Clarion Hotel, with one property having had so many viewers in one session “if I had put a wooden box in the front room, it would have seemed like a wake.”

There’s a big sale coming up in Cork suburban Wilton — try €70m for size — as the shopping centre anchored by Tesco and Penneys gets offered as part of a Nama retail portfolio worth €115m in all.