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A home for the holidays
Get your coat, we're going for a swim! It's summer in Ireland and holiday homes are being swept out and dusted down for the season. Kate Butler maps Ireland's top holiday home locations
Ireland's top getaways, from Dingle to Down
From the law courts on tour in Roundstone to surfing in Sligo, Ireland is still a strong rival to the overseas property market. Kate Butler reports
New to Market
Old roses and room for the Steinway
Co Galway: €950,000 A manageable country
house built for minor gentry in 1835 is set in beautifully
landscaped gardens.Neat treat in Dalkey
Co Dublin: €1.3m Despite the downturn in the Dublin property market there are still buyers out there prepared to pay a premium price for small houses that are in excellent locations and in walk-in condition.Spacious, comfortable light-filled house
Malahide: €1.35m A four-bedroom detached house in a popular development close to Malahide village in north Co Dublin is on the market by private treaty at €1.35 million through Douglas Newman Good.In Brief
Co Meath: €1.6m: Moyfenn House at Summerhill in Co Meath is an attractive modern country house on six acres. It's for sale by private treaty through Coonan Real Estate Alliance and has an asking price of €1.6m.
Luas extension will keep Carrickmines Manor on track
Place: from €370,000 Duplexes and apartments
in this phase at Carrickmines Manor have good interiors and outdoor
spaces.Last call near Malahide village
Kinsealy: from €340,000 One and two-bedroom apartments and a two-bedroom duplex unit go on sale this weekend in the final phase at St Olave's, a small development by Newlyn of 32 apartments and townhouses near Kinsealy, Co Dublin.Sports hotel homes in full swing
Co Mayo: €290,000 Overseas clients were among early buyers at an upmarket hotel and sports resort in Co Mayo that expects to attract international teams participating in the 2012 London Olympics.Starting out at Mount Saint Anne's
Milltown: €475,000 A large one-bedroom apartment in the popular Mount Saint Anne's development in Milltown, Dublin 6 may well be bought by a first-time buyer taking advantage of the scrapping of stamp duty on second-hand homes.
Escaping - to work in the sun
Cote d'Azur Agency: Right about now, Ethel Kelly and her family - husband and three small children - are turning the key in the door of their Kilkenny home for the last time and are heading to a flight to the Riviera.Lazy days in Languedoc in lovely, sleepy town
Buying in France: Prices in Pezénas in the Languedoc are about a third lower than in Provençe, and it is only half-an-hour from the Med at Cap d'Agde. But the town is still a well-kept secret. Alva MacSherry explores.
Architects design homes that optimise sun, views and relaxation
People who commission architects to design their holiday homes
are taking the opportunity to rethink the space they have at home
as well as optimising views and light, writes
Emma Cullinan .
WORTH THE INVESTMENT?
The Address: 12 Sherbourne Court, off Charleston Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Crop of new homes at Sandycove garden sites
Two south Dublin garden centres are to be turned into an upmarket residential scheme.Ben Dunne's art gallery plan curtailed by council
Ben Dunne's ambitions to develop a low-cost art warehouse have been scuppered by Dublin City Council.IRFU pitch to build at Musgrave Park
The Munster Branch of the IRFU has been refused permission for the residential element of a major redevelopment plan for Musgrave Park in Pearse Road in Cork city.Watch this Space
Ice House, on banks of River Moy in Co Mayo, to be expanded into hotel and spa The owner of the Ice House on the quays in Ballina, Co Mayo has secured permission to expand a proposed hotel and spa development.Planning & Development
A selective guide to developments in your areaDiary
IAVI Course: urban development and investment appraisal. July 20th/21st and July 27th/28th, 9am to 1pm.
