{"id":674694,"date":"2026-11-04T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674694\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:22:12","slug":"sold-for-e13m-in-2021-m50-land-bank-returns-to-the-market-with-e32-5m-price-tag-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674694\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold for \u20ac13m in 2021, M50 land bank returns to the market with \u20ac32.5m price tag \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A large land bank at Abbotstown Business Park in north Dublin has returned to the market at a substantially higher price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The site was acquired in 2013 by the State\u2019s largest truck importer, the late Robert \u201cPino\u201d Harris, for less than the \u20ac6 million sought on behalf of receivers, and was then sold on to international investors for more than \u20ac13 million in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Now the 27.75-hectare (68.58 acre) holding is seeking \u20ac32.5 million through joint agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/savills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/savills\/\">Savills<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cbre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cbre\/\">CBRE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Located next to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/m50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/m50\/\">M50<\/a> motorway at Cappogue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-11\/\">Dublin 11<\/a>, the subject holding is zoned for general employment under the terms of the current Fingal Development Plan. The site comes for sale with a positive planning history, with a former owner, Stadium Developments, securing permission in 2006 for a mixed-use industrial\/warehouse\/office park extending to 76,115sq m (819,294sq ft).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Bord Plean\u00e1la subsequently ruled that a number of the development\u2019s units should be omitted and changed the use of some buildings from office to light industrial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The overall planning permission ran for 10 years and cleared the way for 27 buildings, two of them offices with floor areas of 13,032sq m (140,275sq ft), 14 light industrial\/warehouse buildings, seven blocks of starter units and four blocks of business units. This permission was extended up to April 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The joint selling agents believe the lands represent an opportunity for investors, developers and owner-occupiers to deliver a master-planned commercial scheme, subject to planning permission, in a thriving industrial and commercial district. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The subject site is surrounded by a number of established logistics and business parks, including North City Business Park, Dublin Airport Logistics Park and Horizon Logistics Park, and is convenient to Dublin Airport, Dublin Port and the wider national motorway network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/08\/14\/dublins-office-market-has-many-white-elephants-so-why-are-property-agents-bullish\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin\u2019s empty offices: White elephants and grey spaces in the \u2018shadow market\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Paul Nalty of Savills and Garrett McClean of CBRE said: \u201cThe Abbottstown lands represent one of the most significant industrial and logistics development opportunities to come to the Dublin market in recent years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cExtending to over 68 acres and directly fronting the M50, the site offers a combination of scale, profile and connectivity. Given the ongoing shortage of large-scale, GE-zoned development land in Dublin, we expect strong interest from both domestic and international parties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large land bank at Abbotstown Business Park in north Dublin has returned to the market at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,11929,41618,61,60,69197,20806],"class_list":["post-674694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cbre","tag-dublin-11","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-m50","tag-savills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}