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  • Dublin 4/£195,000

    A hall level one-bedroom apartment in a Georgian terraced house at 64 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4, has a guide price of £195,000 prior to being auctioned by Daphne Kaye & Associates on August 11th. The best feature of this apartment, number 7, is the large living-room which retains many of its period details, including the tall sash window with shutters, a working fireplace and picture and dado rails. There is a galley style kitchen, small bathroom and a double bedroom with fitted wardrobes. The service charge is £300 per annum. The same agent is seeking offers of £325,000 for a three-bedroom 900 sq ft apartment in the same building which is laid out on two levels.

  • Dublin 3/£80,000

    Number 3 Strandville Place, North Strand, Dublin 3, is a 430 sq ft cottage one and a half miles from Dublin's city centre which is for sale for £80,000 through Hamilton Osborne King. Accommodation consists of a living-room, dining-room with fireplace, kitchen, bathroom with power shower, and a bedroom built in the attic, with eaves storage. The house has a small yard at the rear, with a side gate to a rear entrance.
CO GALWAYDEVELOPMENT LANDBack to Top

  • £12.6m college site earmarked for exclusive housing

    The National College of Ireland (NCI) has secured £12.6 million for its lands and buildings at Sandford Road in Ranelagh, Dublin 6 - a record price of £3.3 million per acre. Many of Dublin's top house-builders competed for the college, which stands on a prime site of 3.9 acres along a private road shared by Gonzaga College and Sandford Church of Ireland National School. It was sold by tender through Hamilton Osborne King.
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  • Period rectory on 42 acres for £260,000

    For £260,000, you can buy a small semi-detached or terraced house in Dublin's inner suburbs - but in Co Cavan, the same amount will secure The Old Rectory in Bocade, Kildallon, a substantial property on 42 acres.
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  • From mountains to beaches Waterford is place to get away

    The white cottage at Graiguerush, Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford, is the kind of place many of us are thinking about when we decide we want a cottage in the country. The traditional cottage, which still has a loft bedroom over the living-room, has been carefully refurbished to create a comfortable modern home in a house that retains its original, simple style. It is for sale through Dungarvan agent Harty & Co for £80,000-plus.
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  • Adare/£195,000-plus

    Located near Adare in Co Limerick, Caherass Court is an unusual development of refurbished stone houses which go on the market this week with prices starting at £195,000. Formerly the stabling and coaching yard of the Caherass Estate, the one and two-storey houses have been built to a high specification in a tranquil, landscaped setting beside the river Maigue.

  • Co Leitrim/£150,000

    Farrell Auctioneers is seeking offers in the region of £150,000 for a restored cut stone period house at Mohill in Co Leitrim, that is for sale by private treaty. Drumkielvy House stands on an acre of grounds and has an interesting range of outbuildings, including a stone coach-house. The four-bedroom house has been entirely refurbished. It has two reception rooms, a conservatory, and a country style kitchen fitted with pine units and a Stanley range downstairs. Upstairs, the main bedroom has an en suite shower room, while the remaining three bedrooms share a large bathroom.

  • Dun Laoghaire/£345,000

    Sherry FitzGerald is seeking offers in the region of £345,000 for a modern four-bedroom house at 63 Sefton, off Rochestown Avenue, in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, which is for sale by private treaty. The redbrick detached house has a floor area of around 1,800 sq ft and is in immaculate decorative order, with a warm country style decor that will appeal to a broad range of buyers.
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  • Designer's home in Monkstown for rent

    The Monkstown home of fashion designer Paul Costelloe is on the market to rent with the stylish interiors reflected in the asking rent of £4,250 a month. Not only is there a certain cachet to living in the home of a celebrity, with a high level of design flair, but you have plenty of opportunity to pick up a few ideas. The Costelloes are moving to a Victorian house in London's Putney for the next few years and the four-bedroom Richmond Hill home is to be let in the meantime through Lisney, in Dun Laoghaire.
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  • Kenmare homes from £205,000 have good letting potential

    Hooke & McDonald has logged dozens of enquiries for a new development of 36 detached three and four-bedroom houses in Kenmare, Co Kerry, which go on sale this weekend. The name, Tir-na-nOg, evokes dreams of perpetual youth, although this is not on offer with the Netherlands-financed scheme. Selling agent is Hooke & McDonald and prices start at £205,000 for the smallest 1,269 sq ft house.
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  • Upwardly mobile D6 sets staggering new records for residential land

    Hamilton Osborne King achieved a new record for residential land in Dublin when it fetched £2.6 million for 3.9 acres of land behind Sandford Road in Ranelagh. The price equates to £3.3 million per acre and at that level the homes that will eventually be built on it are likely to cost from £400 per sq ft upwards.

  • Investors urged to go online to manage their properties

    Irish investors had better get their high-tech act together if they want to avail of London's newest fixed fee property management service. Web-let hopes to attract Irish people who have been buying property in London, but an e-mail address is the first requirement by the company since information technology is at the core of its operations. Online access will make decisions easier, it is claimed, meaning presumably that you can turf out a tenant by e-mail, no less.

  • Green looks only to the euro

    Green Property's interim results will have analysts reaching for their calculators. The figures are calculated in euros only, with no pound display to enlighten the rest of us who are still easing our way into the European currency. There is no ambiguity about its percentage however. Pre-tax profits are up by a healthy 89 per cent over the last year.

  • Georgian gem engulfed in greenery

    TIS the season to be combing the countryside for picturesque houses, even if they do need a bit of work. Warren Estates in Gorey has just the ticket for keen conservationists - Tomsallagh House on 15 acres near Ferns. It is indeed a very pretty Georgian house, even though its fine facade and outbuildings are almost engulfed in greenery.

  • Piffle of the week

    And, finally, our favourite piece of estate agent's guff:
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  • £1.19 million for house on one-third of an acre by sea in Killiney

    A Dublin businessman has paid £1.19 million for a house on a half acre site in Killiney - one of a only a handful of properties with direct access to the beach on the south Dublin coast. Dunromin, an extended bungalow on Strand Road, Killiney, had been expected to fetch around £700,000 by joint selling agents Gunne and Ross MacParland. However, four parties chased the property in bids of £50,000. Dunromin has been in the same family for over 30 years and is in need of extensive refurbishment. In Dalkey, a two-bedroom cottage at 1 Eagle Terrace, Sorrento Road, fetched £345,000 at a Sherry FitzGerald auction. Elsewhere in Dalkey, 3 Gosworth Court, Castlepark Road, a modern four-bedroom house, was withdrawn at £415,000 and sold afterwards for a higher figure through Douglas Newman Good.
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  • Design gets TV focus

    A major eight-part series on modern Irish architecture is being made for RTE television by an independent production company, Making Waves, with advice from the RIAI and sponsorship from the ESB.
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  • Architects strut their stuff but it doesn't make a house into a home

    Those cheesy greeting cards that say a house is not a home have a point. While the word "house" conjures up bricks and mortar images, the word "home" resonates with the full repertoire of emotions and stories of lives lived. The image of a house is programmed into our minds at a young age. Pre-schoolers reasonably can't grapple with the term home, but they all draw roughly the same house no matter what type of accommodation they live in themselves - a rectangle with a steep roof, a spindly chimney and oddly placed windows.
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