>> In response to the growing interest in the conservation and restoration of period properties, the Irish Georgian Society, in association with Dublin City Council, will stage a Traditional Building and Conservation Skills for Protected Structures exhibition in St Anne's Park, Raheny, Dublin 5 on the weekend of 14-15 October. Duncan Stewart will be in attendance, and admission is free.

>> New appointments at HOK Residential's Dawson Street of"ce include sales negotiators Roisin McNeela and Sandra McManus.

>> A ready-to-go site for 14 units opposite Artane Castle has just come on the market, priced 3m.

Full planning permission at 30 Kilmore Road, Dublin 5, has been approved for seven one-bed apartments; one two-bed apartment; five two-bed duplexes; and one three-bed duplex. There is also underground parking approved for 21 spaces. Two-beds in the Timbermill development opposite the site are currently on the market at 400,000. (Further information: 087 122 3178. )

>> Author of Making Property Work, Maureen Moran, has just set up M&R Property Consultants, a new Cork-based investment and management company, specialising in properties both here and abroad, and enabling clients to build up profitable portfolios.
(Tel: 021 431 4546. )

>> The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV) can get up to speed with the implications of the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) that comes into effect on 1 January 2007 at three separate seminars coming up in October/November in Tallaght, Cork and Galway and Mayo Institutes of Technology. Further information from www. ipav. ie.