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  • Fine Fitzwilliam home for over £1.5m

    One of the last great private Georgian houses in Dublin, the home of the late Supreme Court judge James Murnaghan, at number 25 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, is to be offered for sale in the autumn. The terraced house is expected to fetch over £1.5 million at auction in early October. The entire contents, including a collection of Old Master paintings stolen by Dublin criminal Martin Cahill (The General) in 1988 and recovered later, will be sold separately through joint auctioneers Mealys and Christies of London.

  • Two period redbricks north of the Liffey renovated to highlight distinctive features

    Number 15 Shandon Park, Phibsborough, Dublin 7, is a mid-terrace redbrick house built in the 1930s which has been completely restored throughout.
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  • Getting away from it all in north Cork

    To get to a three-bedroom semidetached cottage on a really quiet country road in Hazelwood, near Mallow, north Cork, you take the Limerick road out of Mallow, and turn right at the evocatively-named village of Newtwopothouse.
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  • Cloonbane, Doneraile

    Eight-bed dormer-style house in excellent condition. Suitable for private home, or B & B. Kitchen with fitted oak units, conservatory, three bedrooms en suite. Price: £150,000. Agent: Liam Mullins, Mallow.

  • Lisheen, Ballyhooly

    Two-bed roadside cottage on 1/3 acre overlooking Blackwater Valley. In good condition. Fitted pine kitchen. Bedrooms with timber floors. Price: £75,000. Agent: Paul O'/Driscoll, Fermoy.

  • Masseytown, Macroom

    Period house on one acre mature gardens near centre of Macroom. Three reception rooms, five bedrooms. Suitable for private or commercial use. Price: £250,000. Agent: John J Hinchion, Macroom
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  • Dalkey/£360,000-plus

    A modern detached four-bedroom house in a quiet cul-de-sac off Castlepark Road in Dalkey, Co Dublin, could fetch over £360,000 at a Douglas Newman Good auction on July 22nd. Number 3 Gosworth Court has around 2,400 sq ft of living space, with a private rear garden with high granite walls. There are two interconnecting reception rooms, a spacious kitchen, family room and small study or fifth bedroom. There is also a utility room and guest lavatory downstairs. Upstairs, all four bedrooms are doubles with fitted wardrobes while the main bedroom has an en suite shower room.

  • Celbridge development 97% sold in less than two months

    Seamus Ross's company, Menolly Developments, has recorded yet another runaway success with its latest housing development, Wolstan Haven, at Celbridge, Co Kildare. Brendan Byrne of selling agents Ross McParland has sold all but three of the 110 three-bed and four-bed semis in the development, which was launched about seven weeks ago. The new residents are due to move in by October.

  • Skerries apartments and houses site guiding £1.3 million

    An interesting development opportunity arises in Skerries on July 29th when Douglas Newman Good auctions a site of 1.2 acres with planning permission for 25 apartments and townhouses near the centre of the town. Adrian Hendrick is quoting £1.3 million for the site at Thomas Hand Street, which was previously owned by the ESB.

  • Booking starts for £145,000

    Galway estate agents Jeff Smith and Co is taking bookings for seven of the eight bungalows under construction at Clifden in Connemara, Co Galway. The development, Owenglin, is located near the highly successful Clifden Glen scheme which was completed a few years ago. The 1,239 sq ft three-bedroom bungalows are priced at £145,000 and will be ready for occupation before the end of the year. Each of the homes stands on about a quarter of an acre.

  • Curragh-side houses to cost £107,950 to £129,950

    Newbridge estate agents Brophy Farrell have begun marketing a new three and four-bedroom detached housing scheme on the edge of The Curragh at Dublin Road, Kildare.
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  • Get on your bike for Burlington Road

    The trend toward demolishing buildings and replacing them with bigger and better ones goes on. Mark Kavanagh's company Hardwicke is about to lodge a planning application to flatten the IBM building on Burlington Road, Dublin 4, and build a six-storey colossus in its place. If he gets the nod from the planners, he will be able to increase the floor area from 28,000 sq ft to almost 85,000 sq ft - a worthwhile exercise in today's market when space in the area rents for over £30 per square foot. Mr Kavanagh also plans to play his part in reintroducing cycling to the city - he applied for no less than 83 bicycle spaces in the development and just 67 car parking spaces. Look out for some fast-pedalling execs on the street before long.

  • Auctioneer thanks RC values for property boom

    Who is Mark FitzGerald praying for these days? None other than Pope Pius VI and Pope John Paul II. Sherry FitzGerald's chairman gives the two pontiffs credit for the baby boom that has fed the property boom over the past few years. Humanae Vitae, he says, is one of the reasons why we have such a large population, while the Irish visit of John Paul in 1979 reinforced Catholic values and sent the birth rate soaring. Population figures were on his mind at the opening of his new branch office in O'Connell Street, Limerick last Thursday. He noted that Limerick has gone from 63,000 in 1961 to 100,000 today, thanks in no small way to the strength of the confraternity movement there. Unlike Dublin, it has plenty of development land around it - 680,000 acres compared to Dublin's 230,000 - so the city is set to get even bigger. Sherry FitzGerald is hoping to catch a bit of the action, now that it has posted young Des O'Malley to head up the new Limerick operation. Meanwhile, in Dublin, plans are underway to open a new office in Castleknock where the main player is the indefatigable Jim Flynn. He is already fending off competition from Lisney since they opened their surprisingly successful branch office in Blanchardstown town centre.

  • No mews not good news

    Bad news for some of the residents of Breffni Terrace in Sandycove, who have just been refused outline planning permission to build mews houses in their back gardens. There has been a spate of applications from groups of residents of terraces for mews houses in recent months. Some weeks ago, five residents of Morehampton Road got their planning permission for mews houses, as did a group of homeowners on Pearse Square in Dublin 2. The decision to refuse permission to the rear of Breffni Terrace is all the more surprising, given that Sorohans recently got permission to build 37 mews style houses on a two-acre site behind the terrace.

  • Anyone for tennis?

    It's time to limber up for the Irish Times Auctioneers Tennis Tournament, which takes place this year on August 21st at the Lansdowne Tennis Club.
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  • Wide range of homes from £127,000 in mixed scheme

    Bovale Development's long-awaited housing scheme at Swords, Co Dublin comes on the market today with selling agent David Rogers. The first phase of Boroimhe will have 60 two, three and four-bedroom houses on offer at prices ranging from £127,000 for an 800 sq ft two-bedroom terraced house to £325,000 for the most expensive five-bedroom detached house with garage.
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  • Fact File

    Address: Rathgar Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6. Number of units:
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  • Apartments from £140,000 in heart of Rathgar have genuine Georgian ambience

    A small and very elegant new development right in the heart of Rathgar is being launched today with prices starting at £140,000 for one-bedroom apartments. The location is ideal for anyone wanting to live in Dublin 6, adjoining Christ Church at the village end of Rathgar Road. A total of 19 one and two-bedroom apartments and three-bedroom penthouses are for sale in two redeveloped Georgian houses, and these will be ready for occupation by September. The mellow brick facade of the original houses has been carefully retained and restored to its original condition. An extension has been added to the side, with access to the rear through an archway. Old brick has been used to blend the extension unobtrusively into the existing houses.
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  • New village has `identity and heart'

    Ballycummin, a purpose-built village under construction just outside Limerick city, proved popular with buyers when its first 86 units were sold recently within eight days of the launch.
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  • Criticisms of Spencer Dock proposals echo the Canary Wharf controversy

    There is something about a boom that separates it from all other states of urban life - something difficult to identify when it is present, but all too obvious when it is gone. Today, Dublin is definitely experiencing a boom. The city is feverish and overcrowded, its traffic caught up in that terminal overlap between the last months of private car anarchy and the draconian counter-attack of the bus and cycle lanes. Meanwhile the skyline is punctuated by tower cranes more than ever before in the city's history. To an English visitor, Dublin is repeating, on a larger scale relative to its smaller size, the experience of London during the Thatcher years, when the promised deregulation of the financial services sector triggered a massive building boom. To anyone who remembers London in the mid-1980s, the similarity is uncanny.

  • State Of Architecture

    We have been asked by Shane O'Toole to point out that there were omissions from his article on the current state of Irish architecture (July 1st). The relevant paragraph originally read as follows: "There is only so much that can be done by Frank McDonald in the Property pages of The Irish Times. In other countries, reputable newspapers are expected to carry a weekly architectural page in their culture or review sections. When will one of our newspapers take the public and social discussion of architecture and urban design to this next level?"
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