Property: Rooms with a view of the Grand Canal

As apartment buildings go, numbers 10 and 11 Harcourt Terrace is hard to beat when it comes to its handsome exterior and its city centre, canal-side location. The Regency-style 1830 terrace is one of the most attractive looking in the city with some of the three-storey houses still in single family occupancy. The two houses at 10 and 11 were redeveloped in the 1980s, the exterior maintained while the interior was divided into seven apartments and two offices.

What is for sale now is number 11 – which is made up of three apartments, one on each floor. Its primary market is likely to be investors looking for easy-to-let, good quality rentals. But it might also attract the eye of a set of three house-hunting friends or family members who could come together to buy, or even a downsizer looking for investment income, happy to live in the one-bedroom apartment on the ground floor and either rent or let adult family members live in the upper floor units.

Given the planning issues in changing a protected structure and the legal issues involved in reworking a part of a property already divided into multiple units, it is unlikely this handsome house will have any appeal for a buyer looking to return it to single family occupancy.

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The apartments are made up of a one-bed on the ground floor, and a two-bedroom apartment on the two storeys above. The layout in each is similar: a livingroom with a small kitchen off it, a bathroom and the bedrooms off a small hallway. The design focused on giving a window – and canal views – to the livingroom and bedrooms, so the small kitchens and bathrooms are internal spaces with no windows. There is a communal patio garden to the rear. A management company looks after number 10 and 11 and charges are €1,959.26 for the one-bed and €2,195.72 and €2,310.57 for the two-beds. Each apartment has a car space.