Property News
- Elmpark wins US award for outstanding urban development
: THE ELMPARK mixed-use development in Dublin 4 has won an award for being an outstanding development from the US-based Urban Land Institute. It was among five projects chosen to receive the 2009 “Awards for Excellence: Europe, Middle East and Africa”. - Mobile market not moving YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that mobile homes are to be exempt from the €200 secondhome charge could help to boost the slow market in this area, as will this summer’s good weather. While one estate agent said that there was no movement in this market, Ciara Slattery of Warren Estates in Gorey, realistically points out that “mobile homes are all about price, like everything else”.
- Sandyford: €750,000 for house with development potential GRASSLANDS, A modern detached house on close to an acre of grounds in Sandyford, Co Dublin is for sale through Colliers Jackson-Stops at ¤750,000. About a quarter of a mile from Lamb Doyle’s pub, the 1960s house has a private setting at the end of a long driveway off Enniskerry Road.
- Councillors to vote on Killiney plan A LARGE area of Killiney, Co Dublin may be designated an Architectural Conservation Area (ACA) following a vote by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (DLRCOCO) next week.
Bargain Hunter
- Consultation to colour your judgement
PAINT MAY be the cheapest way to change the look and feel of a room but, at €60-plus per five litres, a paint mistake can cost homeowners upwards of €300 per room, if you include time, admits Colortrend’s Gary Doyle. - Kitchen cut by 70 per cent to under €2,000
A KITCHEN for under €2,000? Mobalpa Kitchens Dublin (01 4032910) says yes we can. It has a small but perfectly formed display model which has been reduced by a whopping 70 per cent. - Bargain bedstead - and a love seat SHOPPING FOR bargains means literally trawling the four corners of every store you visit. Tucked away in one corner of Marks Spencer in Dundrum Town Centre is a couple of ex-display offers, both at 50 per cent off.
- Hot deals for stoves
LIGHT MY fire! Tom Keane of Ovne Antique Stoves in Millside, west Cork (028 34917/086 855563) restores cast-iron stoves from Scandinavia, France, Germany and America, and boasts a client list that includes Ballymaloe’s Darina Allen and Jeremy Irons. - Ideal's cherry red bathroom is ex-display
IDEAL BATHROOMS (01 4609911) has fantastic value in some of its ex-display items. The agent for Villeroy Boch has a cherry red Lifetime bathroom furniture set, which includes a wall-hung mirror display cabinet, a floor and ceiling fixed revolving cabinet, ideal for towels and other paraphernalia, as well as a padded storage stool set on wheels that can be moved around (ideal to help small kids up to the sink or indeed aid older and infirm adults through their daily ablutions). - Cheap chic at Laura Ashley in chairs, chest of drawers FOR CHEAP chic try Laura Ashley’s Avignon range, a hand-finished French light oak-stained collection that boasts fabulous French-inspired curves.
- Giant screen cut in half THE SONY Centre, Dundrum Town Centre (01 2156999) has a midget price on a giant-sized display model TV.
- Sofa seriously reduced to clear A LUXURY sofa with the seriously well-upholstered price of €10,839 has been reduced to clear at €5,399 at European Living on Dublin’s Kylemore Road (01 6269005).
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