Commercial Property

Colm Lauder: How we can reinvigorate institutional investment beyond Dublin

Of the €11 billion of actively managed institutional capital in Irish property, less than €700 million is invested in regional markets here

There has been welcome extra attention by agents in recent years to larger markets, particularly Cork

I have written several times about how the Irish investment property market has become increasingly internationalised, and professionalised, over the last decade.

This was driven by global investors seeing Ireland as a market with competitive pricing and attractive, and relatively secure, income returns. Sadly, this trend has not been geographically diverse and despite the efforts of many developers, regional markets remain mostly overlooked while legacy holdings have been gradually sold down by mostly Irish institutional ...