Cork is on the up with €400m worth of tall building developments proposed for the city in the next few years, writes Kevin O’Neill

An indication of what we'll see, and the new urban core vantage points, by the end of 2020 comes in this stunning timelapse video of a sunset over the city centre and River Lee

Investment worth a further €10m is set to flow into Cork’s Blarney Business Park, in a significant speculative drive forward by the park’s new owners, JCD Group.

A new office development in the heart of Cork's docklands is aiming to become Ireland's greenest building.

Delivery of new office stock in Cork city looks set to calm recent rent growth, with current peaks now standing at €350 per square metre or €32.50 per square foot, according to a new specialist sector report.

Cork’s skyline is set to reach new heights with the country’s tallest building planned for the city’s docklands.

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

Property investment fund Green Reit has said it is "pleased" with how its sales process is progressing and with the level of interest shown in the business and its assets.

US-based property investment fund Starwood Property Trust is understood to be preparing to sell a portfolio of offices in Dublin, in one of Ireland’s biggest real estate sales.

The first new office building to be constructed on Cork city’s South Mall in a generation is 35% more energy efficient than comparable buildings, constructed even up to just a decade ago.

‘Tails are up and the cranes are up’, but putting roofs over people’s heads is far from top of the agenda, writes Property Editor Tommy Barker

The tallest office building so far developed in Cork City, Penrose Dock next to Kent Rail Station at up to nine storeys, is setting an even more impressive record: its first core and lift shaft is up to full height, less than a year after the €125m project on the city’s north quays first applied for planning permission.

Green Reit shares climbed following its surprise decision to put itself on the market, but other stock market property listed firms failed to get a major lift.

Cork City retailers need to tweak their offering to capitalise on the arrival of thousands of new workers, according to one of the developers leading the multimillion-euro regeneration of the docklands.

One of Cork’s most prolific developers has said the city will be a “very vibrant place” within the next 12-18 months.

Developers JCD have made an off-market multi-million euro swoop on the Cork city Albert Quay site occupied for the past 50 years by family-owned Carey Tools, including the Sextant bar which was subsequently acquired by the Carey family.

The regeneration of Cork’s docklands has stepped up another gear with work underway on a €125m office block on the northern quays which will be able to accommodate more than 2,250 workers by mid-2020.

A major planning approval this week brings to €300m the value of development set to flow onto Cork City’s north quays, by CIÉ’s Kent railway station.

A €1bn Texas-based cybersecurity company, Forcepoint, is to occupy two floors of Cork city centre’s new office block, 85 South Mall, intensifying the 21st-century tech corridor on the southern capital’s most traditional business, banking, commerce and services boulevard.

Plans for what could be the tallest building in Ireland, near Cork’s Mahon Point, have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála.

A ‘tech corridor’ is emerging on Cork City’s venerable South Mall — the historic commercial boulevard is now to be bookended at the iconic 97 South Mall by fast-growing company Eventbrite, who may employ up to 100 employees there over the next few years.

Are the good times really back for the property business? Certainly a number of lead indicators are very positive with the best indicator of all, the crane count, at its highest level since the boom times of the early to mid 2000s.

Confirmation of the financial services firm Clearstream to over 70,000 sq ft, plus an optional extra of 20,000 sq ft more for 600 well-paid financial services jobs at Navigation Square on Cork city’s quays makes it one of the very largest-ever office deals in Cork city.

2018, the Year of the Dog.

Cork city does not need European funding to bankroll development, with some €365m worth of private sector projects underway in the city, writes Eoin English.  

Business links between Cork and San Francisco will continue to grow because the ties forged between the twin cities more than 30 years ago are even stronger now, the mayor of the Californian city has said.

The chief executive of Green REIT–the Dublin-focused commercial real estate developer — said the demand for top-grade office rentals in Cork will likely increase.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

THE €45.6 million purchase of the John Cleary Developments’ Capitol development in Cork city by a German pension fund “is a major confidence boost for the city” and a positive omen for new development, according to Goodbody investment analyst Colm Lauder.

American car battery and building infrastructure giant Johnson Controls has confirmed a number of jobs are to be transferred out of its global headquarters, the landmark One Albert Quay building in Cork.

The first store in the newly-developed €50m retail and office complex at the old Capitol Cineplex site in Cork opened its doors yesterday — and will inject new life into one of the city centre’s most historic areas, according to leading business figures in the city.

US-based IT semi-conductor and wireless communications firm Skyworks Ireland has moved into the ground floor of Cork city’s tallest building, The Elysian.

Cork city centre’s largest office scheme, Navigation Square, is now cleared for a €90m build commencement by the summer which could facilitate 3,000 jobs.

The location of two, 19th century stone warehouse buildings (plus an investment property currently let out as an adult shop,) on a central 0.42 of a Cork city centre acre put up for imaginative redevelopment is what underpins an asking price close to €2m, for the property and site’s owners and vendors, Cork City Council.

ONE of the country’s largest financial advisory firms, Deloitte, has committed to a new, long-term lease on its upgraded Cork city centre offices.

The developers behind Cork’s stalled €53m events centre have insisted they are totally committed to the project, which they say has now reached a critical point.

Companies considering locating in Cork may be lured by favourable terms to accommodate staff in a new, purpose-delivered, build-to-let apartment investment, as part of a proposed, mixed-used city centre project at Horgan’s Quay.

An international anti-virus and cybersecurity company, Cylance, is to open offices on Cork city’s South Mall: a formal jobs announcement and commitment is due within days. It’s one of several new office moves on the South Mall, with Irish Life Health also taking space on the street from next week.