Ireland’s High Court has rejected most of a residents’ challenge to 232 homes on former Carmelite convent lands in Delgany, Co Wicklow, which the nuns sold for €15 million in 2019, while keeping construction frozen pending a wildlife issue.

The Uniting Church has sold a 4,882-square-metre residential-zoned site in North Melbourne, held for 170 years and home to a church with a 46-metre spire, after 217 parties expressed interest in buying it.

Honolulu’s Central Union Church, facing falling donations, lost wedding income and rising repair bills, has voted by about two to one to allow long-term ground leases or sales of parts of its eight-acre site on South Beretania Street.

The Church of Scotland had more than 40 churches, manses and offices on the market or under offer, worth over £7.5 million, as falling congregations pushed it to shrink an estate that has already fallen from over 5,000 properties to about 3,600.

New York’s attorney general says three senior clergy took nearly $2 million in undisclosed payments while steering seven financially stretched Harlem and Brooklyn churches into sales to a single developer who allegedly failed to deliver.

Catholic orders and dioceses in Ireland have sold more than €1 billion of land since 1999, including a €95 million Dublin seminary site, and new zoning requests suggest far more church land could soon be developed.

Cairnlea Parish Church in Airdrie has completed a £1.3 million renovation, removing fossil fuel heating, paid for partly by selling its former Broomknoll church building and converting the old manse.

The heritage-listed Sandy Bay Anglican church in Hobart, held by the church for over 150 years, sold at auction for $4.6 million as the Tasmanian diocese sells property to help fund redress for abuse survivors.

Blue Power Group agreed to buy two acres from the Anglican Diocese on Victoria Avenue in downtown Kingston, beside St Michael’s Anglican Church, planning warehousing for its own use and for tenants, the Gleaner reported in 2021.

Campaigners, including a former Charity Commission chair, called for a government inquiry into Church of England property sales, citing the Old Deanery in Wells and an Arkengarthdale school sold to a developer over a community land trust.