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€2 million Crescent house in great shape
Village living is on the doorstep with this Monkstown terraced
house, writes
Alanna Gallagher
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Author who fell for a city cottage
Dublin 9 €500,000: Deirdre Purcell's city cottage has history and style, writes Rose DoyleCottage makes use of every inch
Dublin 4 €595,000: Edel Morgan finds a gem in Ringsend.Home Truths
Heart-shaped beds? Jacuzzis for two? Give us a little loving, says Edel MorganStriking family home with a New England flavour
Foxrock €5.75m: A handsome Victorian house has been reinvented as a high spec family home. Eoin Lyons reports.Comfortable in Village near Park
Castleknock €2.4m: At a time when fewer and fewer houses are coming under the hammer, the owner of a large home in the Georgian Village, Castleknock, has decided to take the auction route.Redbrick in flats needs makeover
Ballsbridge €3.9m: It's a sign of how prestigious, posh and downright sought-after Wellington Road is that Colliers Jackson Stops has decided that an auction is the way to go for one of its houses.Room to play in Killiney
Co Dublin: €3.5m A large comfortable refurbished house facing the sea has potential for even more living space, says Orna Mulcahy , Property Editor€200,000 price cut for Rathmines house
Dublin 6: €3m A Rathmines house that has been totally refurbished has had its price reduced to sell. The five-bedroom villa-style house at 107 Leinster Road failed to sell at auction last September and has been on the market since at €3.2 million. Agent Colliers Jackson-Stops has now dropped the price to €3 million.Fit for a family in Bray
Co Wicklow: €475,000 A 1950s terraced house in Bray town comes to the market in great condition. 30 Old Court Park off Old Soldiers Road in Bray, Co Wicklow, is a pretty three-bedroom home which would suit a young family.Spacious two-bed apartment with style and sea views
Killiney: €2.6m A two-bedroom apartment in a swanky southside scheme has an asking price of €2.6 million. The Court, Killiney Bay, is a luxury development of 47 two-bed apartments on the site of the old Killiney Court Hotel on Strand Road.Stylish Ballsbridge townhouse good for entertaining - and near Dart
Dublin 4: €1m Gunne is asking for a cool €1 million for a well-located townhouse, 88 Lansdowne Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.Pitch us your house
Teacher's Castleknock three-bed for €469,500
Six-bed Terenure redbrick sells for €2.2 million
SalesResults: An attractive creeper-clad redbrick house at 27 Terenure Park in Dublin 6 has sold for €2.2 million through Sherry FitzGerald. The six-bedroom house went to auction last May, but was withdrawn and put on the market at €2.5 million.Maturing market to get back to normality
Opinion: There are signs that the big 'freeze' in housing transactions during 2007 may be starting to thaw, says Austin Hughes
Starter scheme in fast-growing commuter town
Ashbourne from €340,000: Twenty-five new three and four-bed houses at the Churchfields development in Ashbourne, Co Meath come to the market this weekend, writes Fiona TyrrellSharp price cut to drive sales off Stillorgan Rd
Stillorgan from €380,000: A small apartment scheme in Stillorgan offers what looks like good value as it is relaunched on the market after a change of agency.Apartments beside new shopping centre
Citywest from €260,000: A new apartment scheme at Citywest in Dublin has prices starting at €260,000.Luxury four-bed with views to Howth castle
Dublin 13 1.485m: A four-bedroom home in a luxury scheme in Howth has lots of space, a well-presented interior and seaside ambience.
High design, low energy in exciting scheme at Elm Park
Landmark new buildings designed by Bucholz McEvoy at Elm Park on the Merrion Road have created a new skyline for south Dublin. Emma Cullinan talks to Merritt Bucholz
Take five @ around €550,000
Sherry FitzGerald is asking €550,000 for 10 Pembroke Cottages, a one-bedroom terraced house in Ringsend, Dublin 4. Fiona Tyrrell finds properties at a similar price in France, Barbados, Italy and Scotland
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Good value tempts buyers off the fence
COULD buyers be finally getting off the fence? It seems so based on the strong selling of new homes last weekend. In Dublin 15, the first phase of houses at Manor Park Homes' Barnwell development at Hansfield attracted queues, with starting prices for three-bed houses pitched just under the €300,000 mark.Horsey types to chase historic house
A spring bargain has to be historic Hillburn House, Hillburn, Taghmon, Co Wexford on 107 acres for which offers at over €1.25 million are being sought by the owners who are selling for health reasons.French roll out the red tape
WITH tenders due by tomorrow evening at 5pm sharp on the French embassy buildings on Ailesbury Road, it's time for Ireland's richest to put their best foot forward. Despite all the dreary pessimism about the property market, there are likely to be up to a half dozen heavy hitters chasing the city's most expensive home.Decision time in D4 on Grehan's plans for former vet college site
IT'S D-day tomorrow for Ray Grehan's One Ballsbridge scheme at the former UCD Veterinary College site in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.On the move
ANNA Rossi has been appointed operations director of Sherry Fitz-Gerald. She has been with Sherry Fitz-Gerald since she left college in 1995. Rossi started at the firm's city centre branch in Merrion Row before moving to Dublin 6 and eventually managing the Sherry Fitz-Gerald branch in Terenure.
Power station at former Asahi plant in Mayo appealed
An Taisce says a proposed €140 million electricity power station at the former Asahi plant in Killala, Co Mayo would be in contravention of a Government White Paper which aims to reduce Ireland's fossil fuel dependence.Council rejects apartment plan on former Loreto school grounds in D18
An apartment development proposed for former Loreto school grounds in Foxrock, Dublin 18 has been refused planning permission by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council because it is not of "sufficiently high quality design" for this "prominent site".Watch this Space
10-storey block for Spencer Dock: Spencer Dock Development Company, a subsidiary of Treasury Holdings, is to lodge a planning application with Dublin City Council for a 10-storey office block at Spencer Dock, Dublin 1.
Six-star privilege on the Algarve - because they're worth it
Portugal Investment: Apartments with the services of a six-star hotel are for sale in the newest phase of golf resort, Quinta do Lago. Kevin O'Connor reportsAt the Palacio
On offer: 80 apartments with a spec that includes Italian marble flooring, fitted kitchens with Bulthaupt units, central vacuuming. They are in a 17-acre resort along with a 158-suite Conrad Hotel and extensive leisure facilitiesProperty, actually
Romantic Holiday Homes: . . . is what we really love. And even those of us who are all common sense when it comes to buying at home can let our hearts rule our heads buying abroad.
Landmark apartments in City's financial core
LondonCity: from €463,000 An Irish syndicate wanted to buy all 200 apartments in a new scheme in London's East End that promises views of St Paul's and the Gherkin, writes Property Editor Orna Mulcahy
