John Moran

John Moran

Kennedy Wilson’s €140m sale of Baggot Plaza to German investor Deka Immobilien was one of this year’s headline deals
2020: An unprecedented year for the investment market

Investor response to the pandemic has been marked by a flight to quality and risk-averse strategies

For employees the office provides a place for face-to-face interactions that technology struggles to replicate, such as social interaction, mentoring and managing. File photograph: The Irish Times
Despite Covid-19, the end of the office is far from nigh

Covid-19 is accelerating the evolution of the office as opposed to hastening its demise

With the average building height in the docklands at approximately six stories, we are much lower-rise than other European capital cities. Photograph: Eric Luke
A year of mega deals driven by international investors

Budget 2020 stamp duty hike and Reit policy changes undermine Irish proposition

TMT – technology, media and telecommunications – companies continue to expand in Ireland.
Property outlook 2019: Expanding tech firms to drive office demand

‘There are new opportunities and plenty of growth in flexible office space’

John Moran: “I see growth slowing to more sustainable levels, but advise caution, and to watch Brexit negotiations closely.”
Strong demand and aggressive pricing will continue in the private rental sector

Investors look to alternatives – hotels, healthcare, student housing

John Moran: ‘Expect the unexpected.’
Property outlook 2017: volatile backdrop means investors should proceed with caution

Change in tax legislation will have negative impact on demand from overseas investors

Hundreds of young Cubans gather at Havana University to remember Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who died on Friday night. Photograph: Alejandro Ernesto/EPA
Cuban people on death of Castro: ‘I didn’t know what to do’

Devastated Cuban people express grief at death of former leader Fidel Castro

Cranes over Dublin in 2007: large scale construction activity is expected in 2016. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
John Moran: Commercial property prospects for 2016

John Moran, chief executive officer of JLL Ireland

Lafcadio Hearn, ground-breaking journalist, translator and writer, in 1895
Coming home – An Irishman’s Diary on Lafcadio Hearn and Dublin

Celebrating an extraordinary international man of letters

Lafcadio Hearn in 1895
How Patrick Lafcadio Hearn travelled around the world for 150 years, before making his mark in Waterford

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, who is perhaps better known in Japan than the country he was born in, is finally getting the recognition h(...)

A new edition of the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word was published in October
Why I Love: The Oxford English Dictionary for Writers and Editors

A new edition has just been published of the reference text of choice for editors, journalists and publishers

John Moran is managing director of JLL
‘There remains a significant volume of assets still to be brought to the market from banks/NAMA deleveraging’

2015: Prospects for the year ahead

Celebrating Lafcadio Hearn

An Irishman’s Diary about a protean literary genius and traveller

‘At his trial for Alice Brady’s murder, Patrick Traynor claimed the gun went off because of “a belt I got in the arm”.’ Above, crowds in Dublin’s O’Connell street attending a trades union meeting in September 1913. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
A forgotten Lockout heroine

An Irishman’s Diary: Time for a new memorial

El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, by Ioan Grillo
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An Irishman's Diary

Surrounded by vast mountain ranges and wreathed in lush tropical vegetation on the coast of Honey Bay, the town of Baracoa in…

As I look towards the Straits of Florida . . . there is increasing hope for a better forecast

HAVANA LETTER: More than 50 years after the American blockade was imposed on Cuba, things may be about to change Havana letter…

Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese descendant makes pilgrimage to Cong

“I had a Connaught nurse who told me fairy tales and ghost stories. So I ought to love Irish things, and do

An Irishman's Diary

‘WEARING AN impeccable dinner-jacket, a bucolic complexion, and just the most delicate trace of a black eye, Mr Trevor Howard…

An Irishman's Diary

BECAUSE OF its numerous bridges and an aqueduct that carries the Grand Canal over the River Barrow, Monasterevin is sometimes…

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