Country house style in CarrickminesBuilt 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, writesROSE DOYLE
When new homes go badTHE 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.
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Curragh stud price cut by 60 per centONE 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 The 26.4-acre property was withdrawn from auction back in 2007 at €3.4 million and has failed to find a buyer since.
Worth the investmentThe address: 8 Belville, off Ailesbury Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 (the scheme is roughly behind Donnybrook church).
Interiors »
Designer furniture on sale at D4AIDAN 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.
. . . . and discounts in D8 factory outletLIVING 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.
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- Ranelagh gem puts us back in the mood
It’s a good job the missus is more organised than me otherwise we’d be looking forever, writesDON MORGAN
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Take Five for €75,000ERA Tobin is seeking €75,000 for this three-bed lakeside log cabin in Shercock, Co Cavan.EMMA CULLINAN finds properties at a similar price in France, Spain, Italy and Turkey
Take Five for €700,000Grimes Real Estate Alliance is seeking €700,000 for this five-bedroom house at Archerstown Wood, Ashbourne, Co Meath.EMMA CULLINAN finds properties at a similar price in Spain, Italy, France and England
Gardens »
Salad days in the depths of winterURBAN FARMER: Apart from frost protection on cold nights you’ll be surprised how winter-hardy many salad crops are, writesFIONNULA FALLON
Time to get down-and-dirty in the gardenURBAN FARMER: Now is the time to prepare the ground for next year’s crops, so find a source of manure and roll up your sleeves, writesFIONNUALA FALLON
News »
Busy minister opens local agent's officeIT’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.
- Greens' 80% windfall tax will sink market for land
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.
International »
Monaco's tax haven resort in MoroccoFormula 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
A tax on all their houses - what other countries chargeAs the Government toys with bringing back property tax, we check out what homeowners in other countries have to pay, writesFRANCES O'ROURKE
Commercial Property »
- 80% windfall tax will make Nama's task more difficult
The value of future rezoned land is likely to fall fast once a new 80 per cent windfall tax – part of the Nama legislation – becomes law, writesJACK FAGAN
Lenihan to face questions on Anglo dealThe largest deal in the Irish market since the onset of the credit crunch – involving nationalised Anglo Irish Bank – is beset by controversy, writesGRETCHEN FRIEMANN
Features »
Drama in the docklands: a new theatre takes shapeA 2,000-seat theatre at Grand Canal Square is part of a dramatic new complex nearing completion in Dublin’s dockland, writesFRANK MCDONALD , Environment Editor
Budget calculator adds to your sumsMany of us live in blissful ignorance as to what we really spend but an online budget calculator reveals the stark reality, writesROSEMARY MacCABE
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