O’Callaghan Properties have placed a Cork city centre development on the market today with a guide price of €34m.

Having sold 33.8 acres of Limerick residential development land at Castletroy for up to €8.5 million, or €375,000 an acre, agents Savills now have a similar sized 21-acre lot on the other side of the city, price-guided at €200,000 per acre at Mungret.

NAMED after the fictional Elven location Rivendell, in several of the creative works of JRR Tolkien, including The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, is this entirely down to earth, well-built and solidly anchored family home, in Cork harbour’s Crosshaven.

No7 Briarfield is a 4,500sq ft dormer on a site of 0.3 of an acre. A two-storey rear wing was added 10 years ago, says Tommy Barker.

One of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars, the Rendezvous, has changed hands, for close to €1.5 million.

There’s plenty of room to swing a tennis racket or a golf club at a late sports legend’s home in Cork, writes Tommy Barker.

THE quiet market sale of a €30m-plus residential development, totalling 165 apartments in Cork’s Ballincollig, is likely to see a continuation of overseas buyers and funds now looking for multi-family investments of scale, outside of the Dublin market.

Snow may have caused the cancellation of an open viewing scheduled for 6 Ronayns Court, Rochestown, but it didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of buyers in acquiring the two-bed apartment.

WILL one of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars have a rendezvous tryst with development fates?

WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

Tommy Barker profiles a home in a posh part of Cork that, while modest in size, offers scope for serious expansion.

OVER €100m has been invested off-market, across three low-key retail deals, in the heart of Cork City, at Opera Lane, Merchants Quay/Marks & Spencers Shopping Centre, and St Patrick’s St.

One of West Cork’s period blue-blood properties, the Lisselan Estate near Clonakilty, has found a new, and very local, buyer — Colette Twomey of Clonakilty Blackpudding — for close to €3m.

End-of-terrace home is just the ticket, writes Trish Dromey

SINCE No 23 Geraldine Place last sold, back in 2010, the world around this niche Cork city setting has seemingly come back to rights.

A LONG-established, family-run pub between two of Cork city’s suburban sporting heartlands, rugby at Musgrave Park and soccer at Turner’s Cross stadium, has another claim to fame – it is the closest licensed premises to the grave of Fr Theobald Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance.

A ready-to-build residential site within a few minutes walk of EMC/Dell in Cork’s Killumney and three miles from Ballincollig has come to market, where average cost per ‘stand’ to build on is running at €55,000. It equates to €563,000 per acre.

AFTER an entrepreneurial career spanning 66 years, businessman Michael Bowes has decided to retire from his current employment, heading up the Fernhill Hotel, on the edge of Carrigaline and 100 metres from where the new N28 road to Ringaskiddy is set to run.

A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

Tommy Barker views a four-storey beauty which has been enhanced by its previous owners on Cork’s Blackrock Road.

The mild winter which has just ended has helped in the ahead-of schedule delivery of these long-awaited NAMA €600,000-plus house sales at Cork’s very upmarket Earls Well scheme at Waterfall. 

AN investment with an annual rental income just shy of €90,000, with most of it coming from a bookies as ground floor tenant, is up for sale, guiding at €1.25m.

A restaurant-building investment, in the belly of Cork City’s food district, the Huguenot Quarter, is for sale, with three tenants in all, including a long-established eatery, the Strasbourg Goose.

There’s a sort of musical chairs series of moves afoot at several of Munster’s TV, audio and white goods retailers this month. As one Cork city centre retailer prepares to move to an edge-of town spot for a larger footprint in coming weeks, the first out of the traps to officially confirm a relocation is the well-known and long-established Soundstore.

Now just over 40 years of age, this detached home called Whitethorn’s due a makeover.

One of Dublin’s most eye-catching buildings has sold for €242m in what is being described as one of the most high-profile office investment sales to occur here.

This is guided at €675,000, and is reached off a short, discrete shared access with low stone avenue walls off Church Hill.

Cork City is due to get a significant new, branded Italian restaurant and deli — a Carluccio’s.

There’s a very good 0.65 acre site with this trading-up family home called Kilcrenagh House, in Cork’s Upper Rochestown, near the monastery and close to Monkstown and Cork harbour too.

Tommy Barker reports on the launch of a development in the harbour town that’s been years in the making.

Finishing touches, and staff training among a multi-national barista workforce were in full swing on Cork’s rejuvenating Maylor Street yesterday in the run-up to the opening of a sizeable new cafe/coffee shop, Warren Allen Coffee, set to employ up to 15 when it officially opens its doors next Monday.