Elysian tower

opus

Well worth arranging a tour to see the place, they are taking people in groups every hour or so. The prices they are asking are astronomical (eg 2-bed flat for €655K plus €4k/year service charge :eek:) so I suspect they will be trying to flog them for a long time to come!

http://www.theelysian.ie/

miss_shadow

i love the flooring and thats about it!
cant wait to move out of the city tbh. :D
oh and look, i can see my college from the apartment view. how wonderful..

minidazzler

The Penthouse is bigger than my house!!!

dotsman

Just had a quick look there on the website. All the apartments seem huge for today (hence the price). I think if this had completed 2 years ago, they would have all been snapped up. Now, given the market, if you have that kind of money, you will more likely be buying yourself a nice 4 bed in a nice suburb.

It's a shame, because I do think they are nice, but it's a bit overindulgent for today's market.

daveirl

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Raskolnikov

The development looks great, but it's far too expensive for Joe Soap. Having said that though, I would love to rent one of the apartments.

suppafly

opus wrote: »

Well worth arranging a tour to see the place, they are taking people in groups every hour or so. The prices they are asking are astronomical (eg 2-bed flat for €655K plus €4k/year service charge :eek:) so I suspect they will be trying to flog them for a long time to come!

http://www.theelysian.ie/

Did they bring up to the top to see the view. I'd love that. Did u ring them up for the tour or just turn up?

Oafley Jones

I'd love to see some of the apartments that the decorators haven't gotten to. Would be interesting to see if the rumours about the quality of the work holds up.

thejuggler

I reckon these apartments will be empty for a long time to come if the prices are accurate. O'flynns must be up to their necks in debt on this one - it won't be pretty if they can't get buyers. Perhaps they will be rented out in the short term.
I don't think many will buy the noughties version of the blackpool flats!

opus

suppafly wrote: »

Did they bring up to the top to see the view. I'd love that. Did u ring them up for the tour or just turn up?

Didn't get to the very top unfortunately. Guess only serious punters get there! I registered on the site a while back & got an invite in the post.

Oafley Jones wrote: »

I'd love to see some of the apartments that the decorators haven't gotten to. Would be interesting to see if the rumours about the quality of the work holds up.

Yeah I heard that as well, something to do with contracts being sub-contracted several times over.

thejuggler wrote: »

I reckon these apartments will be empty for a long time to come if the prices are accurate. O'flynns must be up to their necks in debt on this one - it won't be pretty if they can't get buyers. Perhaps they will be rented out in the short term.
I don't think many will buy the noughties version of the blackpool flats!

The prices are accurate as they gave out a price list with the very glossy brochure, range is from €375k for the cheapest 1-bed flat to a cool two million for the one on top.

Coffea

The exterior still looks unfinished. The name of the building is embarrassingly pretentious.

taram

Anyone else see the giant spike on top? It glows blue like a lightsaber some times, the best feature of the building I think. Destroyed my view over the city

Jack B. Badd

Does it still have the graffiti "Skyscrapers are gay" on the exterior?

jank

taram wrote: »

Anyone else see the giant spike on top? It glows blue like a lightsaber some times, the best feature of the building I think. Destroyed my view over the city

I have been looking to take a photo of this but everytime i see it there is no blue light.
I must be too late in the night!

taram

jank wrote: »

I have been looking to take a photo of this but everytime i see it there is no blue light.
I must be too late in the night!

The only help I can give is that it's only lit when the rest of the building is.

shnaek

They probably have to turn off the lights to save on money. They must be loosing a fortune on the thing.

thejuggler

I went to see this recently. Very nice fit out to be honest - they got an interior design company from London to fit it out and no expense was spared.

The 2million penthouse at the top has a kitchen designed by Porshe (which didn't blow me away) There are lots of different types and sizes of apartments. Some go right through the building so that you have views of both Eglinton Street and the central garden. The view from the top is spectacular and worth the visit - don't bring your camera though - photography is banned. (Can a view of the city be copyright?)

However as other posters have mentioned the price tag is completely out of sync with reality and both current and projected future levels for house prices.

Also if a resident has the cheek to own more than one car they will charge a cool 50k for an additional car parking space

Expect to see lots of these for rent next year because they won't all be bought. Mind you the Estate Agent says the 2 million euro penthouse at the top is sold - the rumour is that Gerard Keane got his chequebook out.

parsi

The louvred walls on the ground floor don't really add a whole lot and some of the external work is dodgy especially around the leading vertical edge of the tower.

I am not an architect/builder and I saw this from the No.2 so maybe I'm wrong...

Energizeer

I work in the building right next to it. Might go in some day during lunch.
If I was to get a place there I would be able to leave for work at at 8.59am to be in for 9 lol.
I did hear that someone with a last name of keane has bought the top. It's a good marketing ploy.
It would probably be cheaper to live in the Clarion for a good few years then get one of these places.

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scaryfairy

I don't know maybe it's just my sensitive nose but I regularly smell that horrible kinda sweet stench coming from one of the factories (?) on the riverside. I pass the building every morning Mo-Fri, and about 2 out 5 days I can sense the thing. wouldn't wanna wake up to it say on a lazy Sunday morning!! :eek: and the traffic is really bad all around the building
admittedly, the appartments look damn nice on the pics!

Heisenberg.

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RebelRockChick

thejuggler wrote: »

Mind you the Estate Agent says the 2 million euro penthouse at the top is sold - the rumour is that Gerard Keane got his chequebook out.

Energizeer wrote: »

I did hear that someone with a last name of keane has bought the top. It's a good marketing ploy.

Have heard the same, I think there was a piece in some newspaper recently about Lisa Murphy (his partner) having been interested in getting the penthouse.

Have only seen pictures of the inside of the place, but looks quite nice, very much out of price range though lol.

Energizeer

scaryfairy wrote: »

the traffic is really bad all around the building
admittedly, the appartments look damn nice on the pics!

Yeah, The traffic is a balls. I'd say on average 4 to 5 ambulances or fire engines go by a day. If I'm on a call, even with the windows closed I have to wait till they go by

mik_da_man

4 or five a day?
Try 5 fire engines at a time about 10 times a day.
Trust me.
I work across the road and live not too far away and the fire brigade pass a LOT.
I know they have to, but living that close to them could be annoying.

AssGard

Isn't it a pity that the developers O'Flynns wouldn't have made an effort to make this one the out and out tallest in the country for a long time? It would have been great if they went for it and 'pushed the boat out'

It is after all only 81 metres high and over one hundred years ago (1902) the FlatIron building in NYC was 86 metres. So it's not as if it hasn't been done before !!!

Having said that, really like the design, it's cool.

I vote for lots more high rise architecture in Cork, we're such a flat city.

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deRanged

I doubt they'd get planning permission for anything that large.
Also I read somewhere that there's a massive increase in cost once you go over around 30 stories in height - i.e. it's a non linear cost by height.

I do love the idea of living on about the 25th floor of a tower - just not at the prices they're charging.

Raskolnikov

Jack B. Badd wrote: »

Does it still have the graffiti "Skyscrapers are gay" on the exterior?

Skyscraper my asshole. The building is probably not even in the top 10,000 of tallest buildings.

starchaser

maybe so but it's the tallest building in this country. anyway, it was just some asshole that sprayed graffiti who tagged it as a skyscraper. probably some loser with no friends who spends most of his time posting thousands of pointless posts to message boards from some dark room somewhere

barnicles

Where is it?

Cool_CM

Where the old An Post sorting office used to be, behind the Anglesea Street Garda Station

104494431

dotsman wrote: »

It's a shame, because I do think they are nice, but it's a bit overindulgent for today's market.

655k for an apartment in a city on a scale as ridiculously small as Cork?!?

In this current economic "crisis": Nobody can afford 655k for an apartment unless they are buying it to add to their collection.

The cost of the mortgage and the service charge alone is more than most (80-90%) of people could afford on a 50k a year salary.

FunkyMissMonkey

I imagine it was designed a while ago, with a different economy in mind, when Cork was growing? It is a shame though, such a huge, high profile construction, and I can see most of the units are going to be empty for a long time to come.

Even rental prices on them are going to be astronomical, for the same type of accommodation you can get at other, cheaper locations around the city.

I do wonder which shops are going to be moving into the building though, since I live in the shadow of it, they may come in handy for me!

Dannyboy83

Thats odd, I heard the radio interview with the developer/interviewee on the day it was opened, and he assured the interviewer that the prices had been revised for a more realistic economic climate.

I wonder which economic climate he had in mind? Moscow?

opus

104494431 wrote: »

655k for an apartment in a city on a scale as ridiculously small as Cork?!?

In this current economic "crisis": Nobody can afford 655k for an apartment unless they are buying it to add to their collection.

The cost of the mortgage and the service charge alone is more than most (80-90%) of people could afford on a 50k a year salary.

Stories like this being published won't help them flog them!

Report predicts ongoing fall in house prices next year

20% fall on that flat = €131K
46% fall on that flat = €301K :eek:

Is there anyone in Cork who could afford to not worry about that amount of cash going down the drain?

opus

Spotted the Elysian flats have appeared on Daft to rent:

1-bed
3-bed

Guess nobody is willing to stump up the cash to buy :rolleyes:

run_Forrest_run

opus wrote: »

...Elysian flats ..

ouch, don't let the poor existing owners of any units hear you refer to them as that:D

mik_da_man

They look very nice, but are still a wee bit pricey

Something to think about though.....

deRanged

opus wrote: »

Elysian flats

has a certain ring to it though

towel401

for 4k a year you could probably rent a whole building the same size in some former soviet state

opus

I read on another site that ~40 bookings were taken but 20 fell through because the banks wouldn't give a mortgage for the place which says a lot I think (assuming it's true).

suppafly

opus wrote: »

Spotted the Elysian flats have appeared on Daft to rent:

1-bed
3-bed

The rent for the 3 bed one is not too bad

dewdrop

I see they are renting out the car park at something over two euro an hour. measures to boost income in absence of sales ?

maxwell smart

They have only sold 3 apartments, are planning to rent out at least 40 of them

tech

i think they have got stung with this building now?

Vinta81

i'm seriously considering renting one for college next year!

Illkillya

Vinta81 wrote: »

i'm seriously considering renting one for college next year!

With the service charges in mind, make a ridiculously low offer and you never know.

Vinta81

It would probably only for a year, I just want the experience of living away from home for a year at least. I'm looking for places, and the apartments there are gorgeous! And, not so far from I live now.

Illkillya

Vinta81 wrote: »

It would probably only for a year, I just want the experience of living away from home for a year at least. I'm looking for places, and the apartments there are gorgeous! And, not so far from I live now.

Tempted myself because my office is right next door to the Elysian, would be a 30 second walk to work And you get the entire facility almost all to yourself - just you, the security/maintenance guys, the cleaners, and that developer's daughter who is living in the tower. I'd say you could have a great "La Haine" style block party there.

I wonder if Elysian dwellers (if such people do indeed come to exist) will be stigmatised in Cork following the ridiculously pretentious image that has been pushed since the hoardings went up a few years ago. My assessment from day 1 was that Cork people would be uncomfortable with the teaser campaigns about the yuppie dinner parties and the faceless professionals with purple sweaters/beige trousers/glasses of wine. Even now they're pushing the yuppie chic thing too far with the posters of Audrey Hepburn (or whoever it is), and the straight-back black leather chairs (that seem to be a fixture in all the modern apartments from the past few years).

Maybe I just don't know the average Cork 30-something professional well enough, but I have heard plenty of complaints on these forums about silly VIP areas, forced queues at Soho, OTT dress codes, etc. Back-fired attempts at the kind of exclusivity that might go down well with the D4 types up the country but was never received well in Cork. Wasn't there a comedian who based his entire act on the fact that Cork people are so hard to impress, particularly when it comes to airs and graces? I'm sure the culture has softened since the dawn of the Sex and the City era, but now that we're back in the mid 80's, I see more and more people opting for the ham and cheese sandwich instead of the feta panini.

Give it another year and a few more desperate price drops and we could see The Elysian fill up with students.

towel401

Illkillya wrote: »

I wonder if Elysian dwellers (if such people do indeed come to exist) will be stigmatised in Cork following the ridiculously pretentious image that has been pushed since the hoardings went up a few years ago. My assessment from day 1 was that Cork people would be uncomfortable with the teaser campaigns about the yuppie dinner parties and the faceless professionals with purple sweaters/beige trousers/glasses of wine. Even now they're pushing the yuppie chic thing too far with the posters of Audrey Hepburn (or whoever it is), and the straight-back black leather chairs (that seem to be a fixture in all the modern apartments from the past few years).

lolz

they should have an exclusive Elysian Facebook group and an iPhone application to control the heating / appliances /doors in the flats if thats the crowd they're trying to sell to.