So just who's buying Ireland: First, we take Berlin

Luke and Brian Comer are an anomaly among Irish property developers. When Ireland was booming, they stayed out of the fray and concentrated on beefing up their German portfolio. In recent times, though, the Galway-born brothers have re-entered their

Return of the native: Luke Comer (pictured) and his brother Brian, originally from Galway, are buying in Ireland after making a fortune in Germany. Picture: RTE

Luke Comer had promised to take me on a whistlestop tour of his property interests in Berlin. The idea was to get some sense of the size and scale of his German operations, ahead of a broader interview on his recent €200 million Irish buying spree.

However, as we set out from Die Pyramide, a glass-fronted, 100-metre-high tower that serves as the German headquarters for the Comer Group, it immediately becomes obvious that ...