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Office activity in Cork’s suburbs, especially from FDI companies, has picked up sharply in recent months, according to agent Paul Hannon of Lisney.

He has confirmed a sizeable letting to Canadian IT company Opentext, of Building 2800/2900, which had been offered for sale in 2013 guiding at €800,000 (€40 psf) and which sold for a sub-€1million sum to a private investor in 2014.

Opentext - specialists in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) - confirmed in November its plans to grow to more than 100 jobs in a Global Customer Support Centre over the next two years, in an investment supported by the IDA.