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  • Period apartment in Dublin 4 is stately alternative to modern design

    A first floor two-bedroom apartment in a large period house on Pembroke Road in Dublin 4 is expected to make around £350,000 at a Lisney auction on October 18th. Number 57 Pembroke Road is a stately redbrick that was extended and converted in the 1960s. The extension is ugly, but apartment number 6 is in the old part of the building. It has several unusual features that give it a distinct edge over a modern two-bed unit. The first is its size - at 1,085 sq ft, it spans the entire first floor of the house. It has a reception hall with intercom, a spacious sittingroom with a handsome marble fireplace and a huge south-facing picture window. Double folding doors lead into the main bedroom which has a timber fireplace with cast-iron inset and sash windows overlooking the front.

  • My Journey

    Stephen and I drive to Maynooth together and get the train from there to Pearse Street. I'm at work at 9.15 a.m and get the 5.50 p.m. back to Maynooth. The 6.40 train from Mullingar only gets into Connolly at 8.30 a.m. - and that doesn't suit me at all. They're doing the line up to Maynooth and it's still bad. We leave the house in the morning at five past seven and get home about ten to eight in the evening. Going home, the train gets into Maynooth at 6.35. From there, the drive takes about an hour - traffic at Enfield is always bad.

  • Rethink on plan deadlines urged

    Should the construction elements of the National Development Plan be renegotiated? The Construction Industry Federation says no. It has, it insists, the capacity to complete the ambitious plans for road and house building, water treatment and railway upgrades - including Luas - and the development of new growth centres, within the time frame of 2000 to 2006.
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  • Why is this house being sold by private treaty and not at auction

    As the autumn selling season gathers pace, the message is coming loud and clear from buyers: they don't want to buy at auction. Last week, the first busy week of the season, only six of the 27 Dublin properties offered for auction sold under the hammer. In the same week last year, almost 50 per cent of properties were sold in the auction rooms or immediately afterwards. The trend continued this week, when just 25 per cent of the 56 Dublin properties auctioned sold in the room. In the same week last year, just over 50 per cent sold at auction. Estate agents say that most of the withdrawn property is selling after auction, but at a slower pace.
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  • The rental gazump: at an apartment near you

    A friend of mine was recently gazumped. OK, so it wasn't the kind of gazumping that we generally hear about - where a vendor pulls out of an apparent deal to sell and either hikes up the asking price or sells to a higher bidder - but a species of gazump that is no less devastating when you find yourself homeless. Her experience was the rental gazump. This friend headed off to Portugal for two weeks at the end of August, happy in the knowledge that on her return she would move into a brand new apartment in Dublin 5, with her two flatmates. The rent was £1,000 per month and the three had confirmed their interest by paying an initial sum of £200 "good will" money up front to a local agent.
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  • Stalled sales strategy pays big dividend for former minister

    Former education minister Gemma Hussey has been an outright winner in the property market, by getting around £3.5 million for the Dartry home she shares with husband Derry Hussey. The house at Temple Road had a lot of appeal for wealthy buyers, being detached and set in its own grounds on the swankiest road in Dublin 6. The last house to sell here, Atherstone, was bought for £2.2 million by Cuisine de France millionaire Ronan McNamee. The Husseys toyed with selling their house over a year ago but stalled at the last moment. That delay has netted them at least £1 million more than they might have expected then.

  • Zoe hits the jackpot with waterfront penthouse

    Liam Carroll's company, Zoe Developments, has hit the jackpot with its penthouse at Charlotte Quay, Dublin 4, selling it for a record price of over £2 million. The 1,900 sq ft apartment on the 16th floor of Millennium Tower is the first in the city to make over £1,000 a sq ft but come the new year there will be others in Dublin 4 that are likely to do even better. Agents Hooke & MacDonald had planned to sell the penthouse by tender but with one buyer apparently deciding that he had to have the pad with the "wow" views all over the city, it was hardly surprising that it was sold days before the tenders were due to close. More than 40 people viewed the penthouse by appointment and with the exception of two or three "gawkers" it seems that most of them were interested in pitching for it.

  • HOK nabs a prime spot in Phibsboro

    Although HOK Residential is the last of no less than four estate agencies to open in Phibsboro, it has managed to get the best location of the lot. Its new premises is located slap bang on Doyles Corner, one of the busiest junctions in the north inner city. Happily for HOK, it has picked up a good deal of new business this year and it seems as though its new blue skies look and extensive advertising is paying off. A few years ago, the old-style Hamilton Osborne King would have shuddered at selling a house in Dublin 7 but times have changed, and all the big agencies are now scouring these trendy neighbourhoods for business.

  • Medical centre planned for O'Connell Street

    With Dublin's O'Connell Street still trying to shake off its notorious reputation for assault and battery, it's hardly surprising that the street should have its own medical centre. And it is going to get one, because planning has been granted for a consulting room in the basement of 5 Lower O'Connell Street. Upstairs, there's a thriving pharmacy, so patients can pick up their extra bandages on the way out.

  • Piffle of the Week

    And finally, our favourite piece of estate agents' guff:
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  • Gemma Hussey makes £3.5m from sale of period home in Dartry

    The home of the former Minister for Education, Gemma Hussey, Rostellan, at 29 Temple Road, Dartry, Dublin 6, sold after auction yesterday for around £3.5 million. The detached Victorian six-bedroom house, which has a separate coach-house, was withdrawn from auction at £3.3 million and sold shortly afterwards.
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  • Clonee prices pitched at first-time buyers

    The second phase of Linnetfields, a Menolly Homes development near Clonee, Dublin 15, is being sold this weekend. The company has already built more than 1,700 houses in the area in over two years, and is pitching prices low to achieve high volume sales.
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  • From £129,000 in mixed scheme beside Beaumont Hospital

    First-time buyers are the target market for homes in the final phase of a mixed development of townhouses, duplexes and apartments at Beaumont Woods, Dublin 9, which will go on sale this Saturday through Hamilton Osborne King. Prices start at £129,000. Ivy Court marks the last element of the development at Beaumont Woods, a mixed residential scheme built by Castlethorn Development on former convent grounds beside Beaumont Hospital. On the northside of the city, this mature suburb has not seen many new developments in recent years. For that reason the agents expect a good demand for the remaining homes. There are 67 units for sale, with prices starting at £129,950 for the one-bedroom ground floor apartments with 485 sq ft. The two-bedroom duplex units, with 775 sq ft of space, are priced at £168,950. There are also two-bedroom terraced townhouses with 678 sq ft priced at £166,950. Three-bedroom end-of-terrace units with 914 sq ft and a private garden are available from £199,950.
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  • Homes in scheme at Navan Road from £150,000

    Location is likely to prove a strong selling point when a development of townhouses and apartments go on the market today at Navan Road, Dublin 7. The site, opposite St Joseph's School for the Deaf, in Cabra, is about two miles from O'Connell Street.
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  • Scottish property sales reach highest peak

    Aspects of Scotland's property market are all too familiar to Irish buyers. The prices get higher and higher for apartments and houses in and around Edinburgh, much as they do in Dublin. However what is unusual about Scotland is that there is also a lively market in mountains.
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  • Youghal apartments come with tax breaks

    Waterfront apartments which come with Section 23 and Section 48 tax incentives are being released in the final phase of the Strand Palace development at Knockaverry Strand, in Youghal, Co Cork. Built by Bowen Construction, there are 17 units for sale through joint selling agents Hooke & MacDonald and Hennessy Auctioneers.
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  • Three-bedroom city mews off Pembroke Street for £500,00

    A new three-bedroom mews house off Pembroke Street Lower is to be auctioned on 12th October through the Sherry FitzGerald agency. The house, across the lane from the Focus Theatre, has a guide of £500,000.

  • Apartments near Merrion Square from £275,000

    Show apartments go on view for the first time today at a small block of 12 apartments off Mount Street Lower, a few paces from Merrion Square in Dublin 2. Prices start at £275,000 for the smallest
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  • Big Sandymount houses have prices to match

    Four new houses with guide prices of £1.5 million and a fifth that is expected to make more than £2.5 million go on sale in Sandymount, Dublin 4, this week. The houses are in a small development called The Vicarage, which is opposite St John's Church at the corner of Park Avenue. Agents Billy O'Sullivan and Associates are handling the scheme for Jadeview Homes and the houses will be sold by tender on October 27th.
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  • Last three on offer in Swords scheme

    The last three units at Ridgewood Square, at Forrest Road, Swords, Co Dublin, are being sold by the MKN Property Group through Hooke & MacDonald. There are two one-bedroom apartments priced at £122,000 and a three-bedroom duplex house priced at £159,950 - all of which are ready for occupation. The units have a sunny orientation and are surrounded by an extensive landscaped garden area. Ridgewood Square is close to the Forrest Little Golf Club and is a short distance from a thriving Swords village, with its selection of pubs, shops and restaurants.

  • 50 more first-time buyer homes put on the market

    Hamilton Osborne King has released a further 50 new houses at Swords Downs, in Swords, Co Dublin, after selling 140 homes valued at £21 million in the last two weeks. Ronan O'Driscoll of the selling agent says the houses are "perfect" for first-time buyers. Prices range from £145,350 for two-bedroom townhouses and from £161,950 for three-bedroom homes. There are also two-bedroom apartments for under £140,000.

  • Inchicore apartments show strong sales

    Zoe Developments latest apartment development at the Tramyard, in Inchicore, Dublin 8, sold exceptionally well last weekend, with 42 buyers putting down deposits on one and two-bedroom homes. Agents Hooke & MacDonald are now taking bookings for 24 more of the units, with one-bedroom apartments at £120,000 and two-bedroom homes from £145,000.
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  • Peaceful weekends in prosperous town of Mullingar make long trip worthwhile

    If you believe the legend you'll know that The Children of Lir spent their first 400 years as swans on Lake Derravarragh, near Mullingar, one of the earliest-known settlements in the country. Better known these days as the home town of singer Joe Dolan, Mullingar is enjoying a population revival boosted by inflated Dublin house prices and disenchantment with city living. Emigrants are returning from England and around the town at weekends you are as likely to hear "Dub" or cockney accents as the soft native drawl.
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  • Marlay House regains its stature

    By now, the story is all-too familiar: after years of shameful neglect, an historic Irish property has been rescued and restored. In the case of Marlay House, in Rathfarnham, Dublin, however, the owner responsible for the building's decline and refurbishment is the same.
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  • Spain reigns

    Spanish furniture has a low profile in this country - even though Spain is home to some of Europe's most innovative designers. "People here are probably more familiar with Italian furniture," says Lorraine Stevens, "but Spanish furniture has got the same great style and quality but without the wackiness that you find in Italian furniture." Ms Stevens and her partner, Michael Connolly, have recently opened Lomi Design, a showroom with a mix of Spanish and Irish furniture. The two got together in 1998 to design and market their own range of furniture - he's a furniture designer, she's an interior designer. As a business proposition, it was difficult to pull off. They had little trouble getting orders for their simple, well-designed tables, but the problem was finding a manufacturer to produce them.
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