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Crescent houses with fully rounded history
Two Georgian houses in a Regency coating, on a crescent in
Clontarf, are for sale at €1.65 million each, writes
Rose Doyle
Links cottages at Doonbeg from €1.61m
Eleven spacious links cottages at Doonbeg - a place which ticks all the boxes for a high-end golf resort - are on the market, writes Fiona Tyrrell
New to Market
Former hospital villa could be a healthy investment
Dublin 7: €725,000 A Grangegorman house built for hospital staff is in a good spot, writes Property Editor Orna MulcahyPlain house, great location
Ballsbridge: €2.3m One of the tall redbrick houses in the Leeson Village development off Upper Leeson Street in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, has come on the market through Colliers Jackson-Stops which is asking €2.3 million.Home Truths
Excuses to pull out of sales lead to tales of hard times for agents, says Edel MorganPITCH US YOUR HOUSE ...
Artists' home and stdio for €795,000
Silken Park is tailored to suit families
Dublin 24: from €695,000 Six good-sized detached houses in a development off the Old Naas Road are well suited for family living, writes Fiona TyrrellOld Windmill scheme breath of fresh air
Limerick: from €257,500 The last phase of homes at a stylish apartment scheme with tax breaks in the heart of Limerick city has come to the market.
All aboard: how Nice tram will affect prices
French Property The beach at Nice will be a lot more accessible from Nice's outskirts when its Luas-style tram starts running this month, reports Catherine MoyeFrom front of house to property manager-sur-mer
Customer service is something Katherine Garnier knows a lot about: as Patrick Guilbaud's front-of-house person she has been tending to the needs of Ireland's top business people for 20 years, remembering where people like to sit, knowing who not to put sitting next to whom. Good training, perhaps, for the job she's doing now on a break from being on duty at Guilbaud's.Luxury homes abroad on show
Property Show An international property portfolio which includes chateaux in France, borgos and villas in Italy, penthouses in Monaco, villas in the Bahamas and apartments in exclusive resorts in the West Indies is being launched at a show being held by agent Knight Frank Ganly Walters tonight and tomorrow, November 8th and 9th, at the Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin 2.
Down on the farm - new homes from old buildings
A new book is helping in the fight to preserve Ireland's beautiful old farm buildings by giving guidance on their restoration, writes Emma CullinanIn need of TLC
Four farmhouses with everything to do
Why the design of play spaces is a serious business
New planning guidelines aim to make suitable spaces where kids can play in Dublin's docklands, writes Frank McDonald Environment Editor
Blackrock five-bed sells for around €2.8 million
Sales Results The latest house price index issued by Permanent TSB shows that house prices in Dublin have dropped by 5.1 per cent since January but the sale of a house at Waltham Terrace in Blackrock, Co Dublin, gives a clearer picture of what is happening in the market.Refurb nears completion after over 130 years
What has to be the longest renovation project in the country is nearing completion - over 130 years after work first started.Open House to open out to the provinces
Nathalie Weadick, who runs the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF), is so thrilled by the success of its second Open House event last month that she's hoping to extend it to Cork and Limerick next autumn.Investors check out bargains in Bucharest
It's a sign of the times that Aer Lingus's new route to Bucharest this week was marked by - a property conference.M1 billboards fail to pass at appeals board
Visual clutter was one of the reasons given by An Bord Pleanála for refusing planning permission to developers McGarrell O'Reilly for an advertising billboard on the M1 at Gormanstown, Co Meath.Plan for former ESB shop in Temple Bar criticised
An Taisce has criticised a proposal to redevelop the former ESB showrooms at the entrance to Temple Bar on Fleet Street, Dublin 2, saying the design is trying to cram-in too many floors and is out of scale in an area of great historic sensitivity.Agents sold on the idea of study during slow market
It's back to the books for estate agents who are finding the time and inclination to focus on their academic credentials thanks to the slower market. The IAVI reports that there has been no slacking off in demand for its two professional courses run at DIT Bolton Street.Thornwood wins award
In a feature on the Bank of Ireland Opus Architecture and Construction Awards in yesterday's Commercial Property supplement the building work on the Thornwood residential development, in Blackrock, Co Dublin, was credited to the wrong contractor. The award winning scheme was built by PJ Hegarty & Sons.
Bonus boys to switch spending to art market
City workers' bonuses will be down this year and spending on property may halve - so it might be the time to search for art in your attic, advises Angela Pertusini
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The address: 21 Belfield Downs, Goatstown, Dublin 14.
Take five @ around €255,000
DNG O'Sullivan Hurley is asking €254,000 for 164 Aughanteeroe, Gort Road, Ennis, Co Clare, a three-bedroom semi-detached house. We find properties at a similar price in France, Cyprus, Poland and the US
Eco homes plan in 'edible' Killiney landscape
An innovative development of sustainable homes built in a period style is in the pipeline for Killiney, Co Dublin.Extension to Pearse Street hotel appealed
The Dublin Christian Mission and the Drug Treatment Centre Board have appealed planning permission for a seven-storey extension to the Trinity Capital Hotel on Pearse Street, Dublin 2, to An Bord Pleanála.Watch this Space
Bord says yes to almost 200 homes for Goatstown Road An Bord Pleanála has granted Sorohan builders planning permission to knock five houses on Goatstown Road beside Trimblestown and build around 177 apartments and 18 houses.Planning & Dvelopment
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