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Apartment fit for a leader at a top address
Want to keep a close eye on the next government? Number 11 Dunloe Hall is just the place to do so, says Bernice Harrison

Farmers buy land in Scotland, England as Irish prices soar
Land Values With Irish farmland values now the highest in Europe, approaching €60,000 per hectare (€24,280 per acre), Irish eyes are turning to the neighbouring island for farms. According to David Ashmore, Associate Director at Savills HOK Country, 22 per cent of queries about Scottish farms come from Ireland and 6 per cent of queries on English land come from here.

New to Market

Third time lucky on Leeson Park Avenue
Dublin 6: €3m This terraced house off Appian Way is back on the market after a thorough refurbishment, writes Orna Mulcahy
Gym, great garden in D18
Carrickmines: €5m Mount Prospect, a detached six-bedroom home in Brennanstown Vale, a leafy cul-de-sac off Brennanstown Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18, will be sold at auction by Lisney on June 14th. Agent Lisney is quoting an AMV of €5 million.
High style in Cobh Martello
Co Cork: €1.5m The Irish coastline is dotted with Martello towers built in the early 1800s to protect us against a French invasion, but while they make fine fortifications, their thick walls, twisting stairs and narrow windows mean that they are a challenge to convert.
Style and comfort come easy at Vesey
Monkstown: €3.75m A double-fronted period house remains true to its 1840s heritage, writes Eivlín Roden
Sandymount house with original 1930s' features
Dublin 4: €1.8m A house which wears its many period features well, number 5 Wilfield Park, Sandymount, Dublin 4, combines its reality as a comfortable, welcoming family home with more than a little of the style and mood of its mid-1930s' origins.
Cleverly converted city centre home with plenty of natural light
Dublin 8: €1.2m Number 24 Camden Row is an architect designed villa-style terraced property for sale by private treaty through Felicity Fox asking €1.2 million.

New Homes

Grand Canal makes waves
Dublin 8: from €330,000 A new scheme near the canal in Rialto comes with lots of added extras
Country schemes with good transport to Dublin
Co Wexford: from €325,000 Interest in Gorey as a place for commuters to relocate to is likely to accelerate, now the long-awaited by-pass is nearing completion. Despite its traffic jams, this is one of the most popular towns in Co Wexford, close to beaches and with a great selection of shops, restaurants, schools and leisure activities.

Overseas Property

Of golfing and galas in booming Budapest
Investing in Eastern Europe Alex, my friend, I write you from your hometown. You don't come anymore. I understand, it is painful for you. So many years away and so many of your comrades, well dead or maybe worse - depressed and not going out anymore. How is Budapest? I do my best to tell you. For that time of our friendship and because you ask.
Villas in a secret garden near Carcassonne
Buying In France Eco-friendly villas built on the site of a former monastery in south-west France come with a working vineyard and olive groves

City Cottages

Cottage small but bright and beautiful
Dublin 3: €550,000 Number 37 Charleville Avenue, off the North Strand, Dublin 3, has 93sq m (1,000sq ft) of living space but somehow feels a little larger thanks to high ceilings and different levels.
Artisan dwelling has space down to an art
Dublin 6: €500,000 Tucked away off Harold's Cross Road, close to the bridge in Dublin 6, is this pretty double-fronted house, number 80 Harold's Cross Cottages. It is for sale by private treaty for €500,000 through agent Meadows.

Architecture

A golden opportunity to discover science
A new science museum for children, planned near Heuston Station, takes its shape from an amazing natural phenomenon, says Emma Cullinan
Designers discuss building for children
Architects who have looked at the issue of designing quality creches will speak at a conference in Kilkenny next month

The Market

Ailesbury Road house makes over €8.5 million
Sales Results The Dublin property market was alive again this week with a number of high profile properties selling for strong prices. McNally Handy & Partners yesterday got a contract signed on number 43 Ailesbury Road, a large semi-detached redbrick which had failed to sell at auction in March. It has now sold for "well over" the asking price of €8.5 million, according to John McNally.
Degree course in real estate to learn all about timing
PROPERTY is all about good timing. Unfortunately this week's announcement that a new degree course in real estate is to be launched at Athlone Institute of Technology is at least a year too late.
City to lose manager, architect
To lose one city manager may be regarded as a misfortune but for Dublin City Council to lose an assistant manager in the same 12 months looks like carelessness.
Denis O'Brien's narky neighbours in D4
THE Taliban of Shrewsbury Road are at it again. Businessman Denis O'Brien, who paid around €30 million for a pile on the road about 18 months ago, wants to extend the Tudor-style house before moving. However, some of his neighbours are apparently having none of it.
Agency buyout London-style
ESTATE agency buyouts are all the rage these days but anything happening in Dublin is very small potatoes compared to London where earlier this week a price of £390 million (€575 million) was paid for Foxtons, the largest estate agency in the city.
From string vests to string bracelets
SEAN Mulryan, the founder of Ballymore, is the latest developer to go East. The Roscommon-born businessman has been surveying the property markets in India, China and Vietnam and along his travels he met a Thai monk who presented him with a string bracelet which he now wears on his wrist.
Market View
Those with no sense of irony should stop reading now, says Marc Coleman

Planning

High-rise planned beside Hopstore
Developer Frank Flynn has submitted new high-rise plans for a mixed-use development beside the Guinness brewery in Dublin 8.
13-storey D8 scheme appealed
Plans for a 13-storey apartment scheme off Dublin's quays have been criticised by An Taisce because it will have a negative impact on Mellowes Bridge and the Liffey quays.
207 apartments proposed for Drogheda site
A major plan in Drogheda will see over 200 residential units built at the former cotton mill site on Greenhills Road.
Watch this Space
Council says yes to redevelopment of city architect's D4 house Dublin City Council has granted permission for a small residential scheme at the house of city architect Jim Barrett in Dublin 4. The council has approved plans for the demolition of his home at 19 Eglinton Wood in Donnybrook, located off Eglinton Road, to make way for four houses.
Planning & Development
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Q&A

Q&A
Remortgaging affordable unit proving difficult I bought an affordable housing apartment through my local authority four years ago and took out a mortgage through the county council .

Take Five

Take five @ around €750,000
Savills HOK is asking €750,000 for 83 Newtown Avenue, a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Blackrock, Co Dublin. We find properties at a similar price in the Caribbean, Australia, Italy and Spain

Country Living

Professor's home is essay in charm
Co Meath: €3.8m Westland House, the former home of a Trinity professor, would be ideal for a gentleman, writes Robert O'Byrne
Growing and Rising history
Ferns: €1.75m With the sense of history, space and elegance that comes with a period country house, Woodview House has all the ingredients for a fine family home. Intrepid commuters might even think of travelling the 70 miles from Ferns to the city, now that the Gorey bypass is about to open.
Original look of courtyard exposed
Wexford: €1.3m The Courtyard, Newbay, three miles from Wexford town, gets its name from its location: this four-bedroom restored grainstore and coach-house is in the courtyard of Newbay House, a big house dating from the 1600s now run as a country house hotel.
Bayside house on 14 acres could prove a real catch
Donegal: €2.5m Two and a half miles from Donegal town is Killymard House, a charming country property in a fine seaside setting overlooking Donegal Bay.

Property Trends

Is it time to say goodbye to B&Bs?
A lot of Glasnevin guest-house owners are selling up and quitting the B&B business. But it's too early to sound the industry's death knell, says Paul O'Doherty
Guest-houses on the market
A 15-room guest-house at 26 Gardiner place, just off O'Connell Street, Dublin 1, is 392sq m (4,220sq ft). The 19th century townhouse, known as Lyndon Guest House, has been recently refurbished. The fully equipped kitchen is in the basement where there is a dining area that seats 20 people. Price: €2.2 million. Agent: North's Property

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