http://www.irishtimes.com Articles from The Irish Times - Property en-ie Copyright 2009, irishtimes.com. The Irish Times 2009-11-19T00:00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/ http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/rss_logo.gif Search for articles on irishtimes.com keywords http://www.irishtimes.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259099134.html Built 14 years ago, there’s great flow to the space in this five-bedroom house on three-quarters of an acre, priced at €2.25m, writes ROSE DOYLE Text Property TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259099134 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098027.html THE PEOPLE living in a handful of newly-built houses in a small estate in Dublin were distinctly unimpressed when sewage started backing up into their homes earlier this year. It became clear that the problem wasn’t isolated to a single house or two so the residents employed an engineer to investigate the problem. Text Property TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098027 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259099106.html ONE OF THE country’s oldest stud farms, Brownstown Stud, beside the Curragh in Co Kildare has had its price cut to €1.35 million – a 60 per cent drop in two years. The 26.4-acre property was withdrawn from auction back in 2007 at €3.4 million and has failed to find a buyer since. Text Property TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259099106 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098231.html The address: 8 Belville, off Ailesbury Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 (the scheme is roughly behind Donnybrook church). Text Property Property News 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098231 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098013.html It’s a good job the missus is more organised than me otherwise we’d be looking forever, writes DON MORGAN Text Property Property News 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098013 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259097939.html From a Dublin 4 fixer-upper and a pretty Georgian cottage in Dublin 6 to new homes in Longford at reduced prices, they’re all on view this weekend Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259097939 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259097953.html Your property questions answered
Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259097953 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259097895.html The great experiment by our planners to copy the European tradition of having middle income families live in apartments has largely failed, writes JACK FAGAN Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259097895 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259097883.html BLACKROCK €1.15M:There are sweeping views of Dublin Bay from the back garden of a 1930s four-bed lived in by several generations of one family, writes ROSE DOYLE Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259097883 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259097846.html A spacious house on a Rathgar square is presented in mint condition, as is a refurbished house in Rathmines which is back up for auction over two years after it was sold – with a cut of around €1m in the AMV. BERNICE HARRISONreports Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259097846 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098941.html NEWBRIDGE FROM €110,000:High-spec two-bed apartments in the commuter town of Newbridge, which has good road and rail links to the capital, offer good value for money, writes JACK FAGAN Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098941 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098962.html CO CLARE: €425,000:A PERIOD farmhouse with views of Lough Derg and the Clare hills was bought for practical reasons but ended up becoming the inspiration for a historical biography. Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098962 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098913.html Homeowners facing repossession should not be treated like criminals or be bullied by the banks, says ISABEL MORTON
Text Property New to the Market 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098913 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259097993.html ERA Tobin is seeking €75,000 for this three-bed lakeside log cabin in Shercock, Co Cavan. EMMA CULLINANfinds properties at a similar price in France, Spain, Italy and Turkey
Text Property Take Five 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259097993 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098111.html AIDAN CAVEY of Cavey Design, at 4 Shaw’s Lane, off Bath Avenue, Dublin 4 (01-6600600) is holding a flash sale of designer furniture and furnishings this weekend at the D4 Berkeley Court Hotel on Saturday and Sunday, November 21st and 22nd from 10am to 1pm. Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098111 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098129.html LIVING QUARTERS at Cornmarket, Dublin 8, has set up a factory outlet shop beside its production unit in Bagenalstown Retail Park, Co Carlow, in conjunction with a number of suppliers who are keen to dispose of large quantities of unsold stock. This factory shop (059-9722707) is offering up to a 70 per cent discount on many items including quality timber bed frames, metal beds, a range of mattresses, sofas, recliners, bedroom and dining furniture. Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098129 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098043.html PLUSH UPHOLSTERY (087-7682523) is offering two lucky readers 40 per cent off a set of six Vogue dining chairs. The chairs – which normally retail for €450 per seat, with a set of six normally costing €2,700 – will cost €1,620, a saving of over €1,000, to the first two readers to call upholsterer Kela Hodgins and order the seating set. Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098043 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098093.html MARINA CUCINE, at the Marine Court Centre in Malahide (01-8457693), is relocating back to its mother shop, McAuley Kitchens in Drogheda (041-9836776). As a result there are some great deals to be had on Scavolini display models in Malahide. Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098093 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098318.html KENNETH HODGINS Interiors on Birch Avenue, Stillorgan Industrial Estate, Stillorgan, Co Dublin (01-2938898) has a Skovby dining set comprising an oval natural oak dining table and four linen-mix upholstered chairs that was €2,810 and is now reduced by 36 per cent to €1,799. The table seats up to six.
Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098318 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098329.html M KELLY Interiors, 61a Sallynoggin Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin (01-2851444), has 50 per cent off a selection of furniture styles including the cool contemporary Royal oak dining set, a table and six chairs which was €699 and is now €399. There's also a couple of bed frames: the Willow 5ft style was €499 and is now €249; the Verona single bed was €99 and is now €69; its double version was €135, is now €95.
Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098329 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098434.html ANTICA, BEAUMONT Avenue in Churchtown, Dublin 14 (01-2960136) is offering a buy one metre, get the second metre free on limestone, sandstone and travertine, marble (pictured left) tile orders from now until Christmas. There's also 60 per cent off Karol bathroom fittings.
Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098434 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098079.html LOUVRED SHUTTERS, left, have become the window treatment of the moment but as well as shade, they offer insulation and can be used creatively to divide rooms from floor-to-ceiling. Trade Shutters at The Ward on the Co Meath/Dublin border (01-8359555) is offering Bargain Hunters a 40 per cent discount on its prices, reducing them from €400 to €240 per sq m. Text Property Your Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098079 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098278.html URBAN FARMER:Apart from frost protection on cold nights you’ll be surprised how winter-hardy many salad crops are, writes FIONNULA FALLON Text Property Outdoors 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098278 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098995.html IT’S DIFFICULT to separate politicians from the property industry. The exceedingly busy Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, found time last Saturday to formally open a new estate agency in his home parish of Blanchardstown. Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098995 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098901.html THE GREENS have done it again. Even with the property industry on the floor, the party threw an additional spanner in the works with its 11th hour change in the Nama legislation to allow for an 80 per cent windfall tax on any land where zoning has been changed. Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098901 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098969.html SATURDAY’S TURNOUT for a house viewing in Ranelagh has put a bounce in the step of Christopher Bradley of Sherry Fitz’s local office. Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098969 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098981.html ARE YOU STUCK with a mortgage on an apartment in Budapest and want out? Relax. Help may be at hand as a Dublin agent is pitching to buy back apartments in the Hungarian capital. Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098981 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098950.html THE PROPERTY downturn has had one noticeable effect on estate agents’ calendars – there’s no longer any seasonality to the market, and no obvious “good time” to put your home up for sale. Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098950 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098896.html WHAT IS happening in the market? Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098896 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259099002.html JOBS MAY BE thin on the ground for architects, but at least the plaudits keep rolling in. Text Property Around the block 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259099002 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098184.html Heuston South Quarter is not yet the “vibrant urban quarter” as envisaged, but Eircom’s new HQ there is a big success, writes FRANK MCDONALD Text Property Architecture 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098184 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098213.html Formula One world champ Jenson Button has already bought one of 25 villas in a Moroccan resort targeted at wealthy tax exiles launched last week by Monaco’s Prince Albert Text Property Architecture 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098213 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1119/1224259098064.html . . . in the Village at Lyons. Paschal O’Reilly talks to EMMA CULLINAN Text Property My Space 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098064