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€1.1m for couple's cool eco house
We'd all like to do our bit to save the planet by making our homes environmentally friendly. But is it easy? Emma Cullinan talks to a couple who built their own low energy, high design home

Brighton Road duo have gardens with potential
Wroxton: €5m Two large homes on Foxrock's Brighton Road - one a fine period house, the other more modern - each have almost an acre of gardens, writes Rose Doyle

New to Market

Simply red in splendid Sandymount
Dublin 4: €2.75m Sitting in the flower filled garden of Glenesk, 44 Claremont Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4, you could be in the heart of the country - yet the house is just 200 yards from Sandymount village.
Quartet of city redbricks revamped and ready to go
Four townhouses in the south city's redbrick heartlands come to the market with their period features restored and stylish modern additions
Fine redbrick on over half an acre
Dalkey: €2.95m Montpelier is a handsome redbrick semi-detached house set above Dalkey railway station on Ardeevin Road. For auction on September 21st, it's expected to make around €2.95 million, according to selling agent Ronan O'Hara of HOK Residential.
Period home on top terrace needs total renovation
Blackrock: €2.65m At 31 Waltham Terrace, to be auctioned by Sherry Fitzgerald on September 30th with guide of €2.65 million, there is certainly much to "see beyond" - estate agent parlance for property that has seen better days.
Knockout design behind the front door
Blackrock: €2m Take a Dublin house, tear out the inside and put it back together again with the best of everything - new kitchen, new bathrooms, soaring windows, a galaxy of lighting . That's what the owners of this lavishly revamped semi-detached house in south county Dublin did before moving on to another challenge. Eoin Lyons reports
Cottage in the village with a big interior
Dalkey: €1.7m Granite Cottage on Ulverton Road in Dalkey will appeal to people who want be right in the thick of things.
First-time buys
Four first-time buys from Dublin to Westport

New Homes

Tee-time for apartments beside golf course
Greystones: from €259,950 Sixty homes in a large Greystones scheme with fine views are on the market, writes Anne Dempsey
Apartment living in the heart of Swords
Co Dublin: from € 240,000 The first 30 apartments in a Swords Central launch today. Kate McMorrow reports
Starter scheme in coastal suburb with good links
Donabate: from €235,000 First or second-time buyers could be in the running for a €315,000 penthouse at The Gallery, a smart new homes development showing this weekend at Turvey Walk in Donabate village, Co Dublin. Prices start at €235,000, so there is something to suit most budgets.
Top southside scheme with city and mountain views
Dublin 16: from €405,000 Penthouses, apartments and duplexes on sale this weekend in Dublin 16 offer buyers the final opportunity to purchase at the leafy up-market development of Ballintyre.
Suburban homes in woodland setting
Dublin 15: from €199,000 Househunters in the Dublin 15 area could take a look at Shackleton House, a development built in the exceptional grounds of a former stud farm at Archers Wood off the Navan Road.
Last call for apartments beside old abbey
Rathfarnham: from €340,000 Ten penthouses and 12 one and two-bedroom apartments in a popular Rathfarnham scheme are being launched this week.
Townhouse in top scheme
Stepaside: €530,000 A three-bedroom townhouse has come back on the market at Bellarmine, a Castlethorn development in Stepaside, Co Dublin. Sherry FitzGerald's Dundrum branch is quoting €530,000 by private treaty for 11 Bellarmine Way, which is stylishly decorated.
High-tech apartments
City West: from €246,500 Douglas Newman Good New Homes is showing apartments at Belfry Hall this weekend, where two-bedroom apartments are on offer from €246,500. A total of 166 units are for sale.
A landlord's life
"Alurm, alurm - to horse" - runs a stage direction in one of Shakespeare's history plays. I feel like taking to horse myself when an apartment alarm goes off, without apparent reason. "To horse" - even in the inner city - seems a better option than ringing Gardai, who have more productive forays than another cursory search of a residential block.
Trade-up for right reasons
CityLiving: High prices have led to the serial trader-upper, writes Edel Morgan

Take Five

Take five @ around €675,000
Sherry FitzGerald Royal is seeking €675,000 for The Thatch, a three-bedroom period cottage on Kilcarthy Road, Dunsany, Co Meath. Kate McMorrow finds properties at a similar price in France, South Africa, Portugal and Mallorca

The Market

Fine seaside home with glorious features
Monkstown: €2m A large Victorian house in Monkstown that has been in the same family for over 100 years is on the market through Lisney with a guide price of €2 million prior to auction on September 29th.
Pretty mews with plenty of precious parking
Dublin 4: €1.3m If parking a precious car is a priority, HOK Residential has the answer with The Mews, on Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, a bijou house with parking for up to four cars.
Three-bed in nice spot
Blackrock: €950,000 Daphne L Kaye & Associates is guiding over €950,000 for "Inish", a three-bedroom detached house in Knocksinna Court, a cul-de-sac off Granville Road in Blackrock, Co Dublin.
Awards to draw property crowd
Around the Block Property advertising has come a long way over the past two decades since estate agents took their own pictures and printed their own brochures down in the basement. It's now become a sophisticated and tough business to attract the attention of buyers and investors for the ever-increasing number of homes and overseas developments hitting the property pages each week.
Worth the investment
Investment opportunities
Can't buy, won't buy: why I want to rent
Talking Property: Everyone told Gary Quinn - married with two children and three jobs - that he had to buy a house. But now that he's decided not to, he's got his old life back
On location with an agent in Callan
Agent: Grace Real Estate Alliance

Q&A

Q&A
A selection of your property queries answered

Overseas Property

From Fairview to Florida, warehousing to selling homes in the sun
Selling in the US: Gary Kenny took a holiday to Orlando nine years ago. Now he's a real estate agent and property developer there. He tells Frances O'Rourke about selling in the sunshine state
Sun, sand and . . . er, snow?
Dubai Development: A bizarre new development in the desert near Dubai launched in Dublin this week. Fiona Tyrrell reports

Architecture

Church a place of architectural pilgrimage
Le Corbusier's church at Ronchamp in France is a spiritual and architectural retreat. Emma Cullinan reports

Interiors & Exteriors

Fantastic plastic at Muji
Shoparound: If it's the sophisticated plastic look you're after, check out Muji on Dublin's Chatham Street: its nice range of chic acrylic tables would look great in any contemporary setting.
Thinking of selling?
There is nothing like sleek modern appliances to set the tone in the kitchen and nothing worse then a battered fridge, old-fashioned dishwasher and shabby washing machine to make your kitchen look dreary.

Mortgages

Prepare your battle lines for fight ahead
Now that September is in full swing, the time has come for buyers to dust themselves off and prepare for the battle that is the second and last big selling season of the year.

Planning

Locals attack 24-storey tower planned for D18
A proposal to build Ireland's second tallest building - a 24-storey tower - and over 250 apartments at Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18, has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála, with one local referring to its height as "obscene".
Watch this Space
Mixed-use scheme with 77 homes for Dun Laoghaire: The Old Schoolhouse and Number 3 Eblana Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin is to be demolished to make way for a mixed-use development.
Diary
IRISH CONCRETE SOCIETY/ Awards: 2005 Irish Concrete Society award for excellence in the design or construction of a completed building, structure or concrete element, irrespective of type, scale or complexity.

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