Two investment opportunities in south Dublin

QRE Real Estate Advisers is bringing two interesting investments to the market this week. The first, at 25 Rockhill in Blackrock village, is opposite the entrance to the shopping centre in this swish south Dublin village and is guiding at €700,000. It has 569sq m (6,126sq ft) of space and is fitted out to a very high standard to include floor-to-ceiling windows, oakwood flooring, and a tea station on the ground floor.

The building is serviced by an eight-person passenger lift and stairs that are linked via the ground-floor door to the Dart station and car park.

Four of the floors provide outstanding sea views of Dublin Bay at the rear of the premises, the lower ground floor level is fitted out as a showroom/storeroom and the basement accommodates an apartment.

The property is zoned "DC" under the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Development Plan 2010-2016 to "protect, provide for and or improve mixed-use district centre facilities".

QRE suggests the building is ideal for a multiple of uses including as a restaurant, offices, shop, residential and a doctor/dentist premises. There is no car-parking with the property but plenty available locally.

QRE is are also quoting €525,000 for 8 Castlewood Place off Lower Rathmines Road in the centre of Rathmines. It is a good quality commercial building extending to 262.91sq m (2,830sq ft) but with no car-parking.

The terraced three-storey building with a small enclosed garden to the rear is producing a rent roll of €42,000 per annum.

Its ground floor is arranged as a reception and meeting area, with the upper floors in offices benefiting from front and rear balconies. There is also a shower facility on the second floor together with a tea station.