This week’s major business events: BP results; Irish unemployment rate

Shares in US property firm and affiliate drop in value amid investor concerns

Cantillon: London-listed property company to be absorbed into parent in all-share deal

Merger will create $4bn property group with 400-plus properties worldwide

Stillorgan shopping centre and Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links among company’s assets

Traditional investors expected to become involved as finance giants scale back stakes

Property company says Dublin will benefit as UK investors seek to relocate in Ireland

Kennedy Wilson among the first investors to snap up Irish property after crash

Benefit agrees 10-year lease with year five break option at rent of c. €30,000 a year

London-listed fund’s Irish derived revenues fell to £69m from £73.9m in first half of 2016

Chase office block in Sandyford acquired from Chase Arkle for €62.5 million

Development at Vantage to create 120 construction jobs

Kennedy Wilson indicated it would be following its money in the apartment market

Retail will be ‘big story’ of Irish property market this year