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Farewell to Bel Eire as singer sells up
Singer Lisa Stansfield is selling her Dalkey home for €8m
after 14 years. Property Editor
Orna Mulcahy reports
A new square for Dublin in Donnybrook
Changing City: As traditional squares go, the quarter acre communal garden at Edward Square in Donnybrook is on the small side. But then again, nothing of this style has been built in Dublin for over a century and space is at a little bit more of a premium now than it was in the mid-1800s.
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Ripe for religious conversion
Dublin 6: €4.95m This former rectory has a faded grandeur and huge potential for those who are prepared to carry out a fairly extensive makeover, writes Alanna GallagherLots of space and sea views from on high
Dalkey: €6.5m Santa Maria, a large detached house in Dalkey whose garden featured in Hugh Leonard's play Da, will be auctioned on May 30th. The big Victorian house stands above the village on Cunningham Road, a short walk from the Dart. It has a large front garden but most of the back garden has been taken for development, leaving a total of 0.6 acres with the house.Grand proportions in house overlooking private park
Dublin 6: €4.95m This Victorian house in a beautifully kept terrace has grand and elegant proportions, says Rose DoyleStylish Crampton-built house recently revamped by top architects
Dublin 4: €6m Number 4 Argyle Road,Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, is a swish, Crampton-built, Victorian semi that has been extensively revamped and is now to be auctioned through Sherry FitzGerald on May 30th. The AMV is €6 million.Refurbished four-bed with views out to Howth
Blackrock, Co Dublin: €3.25m A four-bedroom terraced period house facing the sea in Blackrock, is for sale by private treaty through Brian Dwyer & Partners asking €3.25m.Market View
Still can't get no satisfaction on stamp duty, says Marc Coleman
Final call at Carton Estate
Co Kildare: from €1.01m The final phase of houses built in the grounds of the Carton estate in Co Kildare go on sale this weekend with prices starting at just over €1 million for four-bedroom houses.Seductive luxury of gated golf estate at Adare Manor
Co Limerick: from €465,000 Fancy living on an estate - a real country estate that is? Michael Parsons tours the glitzy showhouse at Adare Manor, where the Irish Open kicks off next week and new homes are launched.Vaulted ceilings, bling fitout in one of final phases at Ballintyre
Dublin 16: from €415,000 One of the final phases of apartments and penthouses at the popular Ballintyre scheme come to the market this week.Trading up from golf homes in Co Kilkenny
Mount Juliet: from €1.65m Ireland has an ever increasing number of country clubs with on-site holiday homes, leisure centres and hotels. To a great many people, Mount Juliet in Kilkenny is still the most prestigious and stylish of them all because the 1,500-acre estate maintains its old world ambience.Apartments in spacious scheme near Luas and M50
Dublin 18: from €365,000 Apartments go on sale this week at Carrickmines Green, a Hanly Group development off the Glenamuck Road in Dublin 18.Duplexes and apartments in top D6W spot
Terenure: from €460,000 Duplexes go on sale for the first time at a well located scheme in Terenure, Dublin 6W.Family four-beds with good links in village
Bettystown: from €430,000 Four-bedroom semi-detached and detached houses at affordable prices go on show this week at Bettystown, Co Meath.Tax breaks in a Leitrim resort
Lough Rynn: from €559,000 The arrival of summer coincides with a new launch at Lough Rynn, a golf, hotel and country club resort in Co Leitrim with tax breaks for owner-occupiers and investors. This scheme by the Hanly Group is on the former ancestral home of the Earls of Leitrim, near Mohill in the heart of McGahern country.
Bringing good design and planning to the party
High-rise, in the right place, is a good thing, and urban sprawl is bad, say TDs with an interest in architecture, arts and the environment. Emma Cullinan reports
Donnybrook house makes €3.955m under the hammer
Sales Results: It was another slow week in the auction rooms and yesterday, just two houses sold at auction, while one sold after.
Room for all the family in the heart of the home
It needs to be comfy, bright, and wired for everything. Robert O'Byrne on the family room
Boutique hotel for protected structure in Donegal approved
Permission to turn Carnagarve House, a protected structure overlooking Lough Foyle in Co Donegal, into a boutique hotel has been granted by An Bord Pleanála. But an adjoining application for an additional nine homes has been refused.Apartments at listed house rejected
An apartment scheme in Dublin 6 has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála because it interferes with the setting of a protected building.Bord turns down plan for print works site in D8
A Dublin 8 housing scheme has been refused planning permission on the grounds that it would constitute overdevelopment.Watch this Space
Skerries golf club to grow Treasury Holdings is looking to extend the golf offer at its €80 million tourism development at Skerries.Diary
IAVI Lectures: BSc course lectures (first, second, third and fourth years). May 12th, DIT, Bolton Street, Dublin 1 (King's Inn Street entrance).Planning & Development
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Q&A
Should I put house in my partner's name only? My partner and I will be hopefully trading up from my one bedroom apartment to a more suitable family home later in the year. I bought the apartment in 1998, my partner has never owned property. As he is now a first-time buyer, will we be considered as first-time buyers for stamp duty purposes?
Take five @ around €2 million
Kevin Flanigan is asking €2 million for The Arches, a three-bedroom detached house on Railway Avenue, Malahide, Co Dublin We find properties at a similar price in France, Italy, Spain and the UK
