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Thornleigh Terrace, Swords - Auction pic V Google streetview

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    The adjacent properties look fine. It's mostly superficial by the looks of it. Somebody will get a bargain there because so many people like you will run a mile from it. Probably a nice rental yield in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    I live nearby and as far as I remember there was some strange story with this house, and although it was built back in 2004 it could never be sold for some reason and has been derelict ever since. Rents in the area are skyrocketing, a smaller 3 bed recently went up for €1300 per month in the same estate. Certainly if snagged cheaply this could represent an excellent rental investment.

    Also from memory the picture for the auction is the current state, the google maps one was from a few years back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    interesting...just goes to show doesnt it...now all i need is money! :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I'd guess it was painted for the photo, most Irish streetview images are 5 years old now - they were taken during the *last* local election campaigns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,469 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Open the google image link, look at the bottom left corner of the picture, it tells you when the picture was taken.

    In this case the Google image was March 2009.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    If you look around the rest of the estate, it actually looks OK, it's pretty clean etc.

    If you go north up the lane, you can see the end of terrace house on Thornleigh lane is practically identical, and aside from graffiti on the outside low wall, looks perfectly fine.

    If I had to make a guess looking at the unfinished/low walls on the East/Northeast side I would say that that there's some kind of dispute over the land, and whoever owns that POS property north of it has refused to let them finish the garden. If you finished that wall and increase its height by half a metre, it would be a perfectly nice property. I'd be concerned about travellers using that lane - perhaps that property to the North allows travellers to camp on the land?

    Looking at the property on the far end of the terrace, you can see the garden configuration there, so I'd be almost certain that this is a dispute over land, hence why the garden for this property lies unfinished.

    Tbh, if you could get this for €90k, solve the dispute and clean it up for €50k it wouldn't be a bad little property at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Any idea what it went for?

    I think the issue was that in order to be connected to one of the utilities the other house needed to give permission and refused to, hence the house remained unsold since it was built in 2004, not sure if this dispute has been resolved, but I presume so or the house has little value unless an accommodation can be reached.

    Edit I see the auction is not for a couple of weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭PWEI


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Any idea what it went for?

    I think the issue was that in order to be connected to one of the utilities the other house needed to give permission and refused to, hence the house remained unsold since it was built in 2004, not sure if this dispute has been resolved, but I presume so or the house has little value unless an accommodation can be reached.

    Edit I see the auction is not for a couple of weeks.


    I live in Thornleigh & this is what we thought the dispute was about.
    But one of the members in the Residents Association was told by Fingal County Council that the dispute was a about the border with the neighbouring house.
    The old woman doesn't live there any more but still returns from time to time. The dispute was never settled so any potential buyer would have to deal with that & the fact that the garden has collapsed will make it harder.
    It might looks like a bargain but it requires a lot of money & I'm sure the inside stinks to high heaven.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Tenure: see legal documents .. and you have to log in to see the legal pack.

    What's that all about?


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