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Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

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Mollyb60

Stunning house, obviously well loved too. I had to laugh at the estate agent's statement that it'd be an easily accessible weekend retreat. Who the fcuk has 4.25 million to spend on a holiday home?

Tabnabs

A real hidden gem, very difficult to believe this house is in Dublin at all.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/glenasmole-lodge-glenasmole-co-dublin-d24-tp86/4509222

[Deleted User]

That’s the craziest price I’ve seen for a cottage yet. Will Someone actually pay that? Who would it suit?

some random drunk

retalivity wrote: »

There's 2 more on the same street for sale that both have 2 bedrooms squeezed into 50sqm or less. Finished much better, but prices are eye-watering

€495k - https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-1-harty-place-dublin-8/3230734

Christ the photos with the CGI furniture are incredibly disingenuous! :eek:

Taking a photo with a wide angle lens is one thing, but then creating an image where the shrunken down cgi furniture fits in with loads of room to spare is just downright lying!

knucklehead6

KevRossi wrote: »

€199,000 for this. It's about €70,000 cheaper than most of the similar houses in the area and it's been for sale for months. Needs a good clean out, new floors, new wallpaper/paint, probably new windows and a boiler. No pics of bathroom so probably needs to be refurbished along with the kitchen. Probably good value if you're not too fussy. If you're handy with DIY and you laid into it for 4 weeks you'd get the important bits done and you could do the rest over few months, saving a fair few quid on similar houses. With the extension at the back it's easy to make a 3 bed (one an ensuite) out of it later on.

I don't know how good or bad that end of the road is, or how much anti-social behaviour goes on in the park opposite it, but you're 25 mins walk from the Phoenix Park, less than 10 on a bike. Chapelizod, Inchicore and Kilmainham are very near and Ballyer has most shops like Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, etc. There's a few shops 2 mins walk down the road as well.

Bus outside the door (literally) goes every 10 mins in the morning and evening, every 15 outside of that.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/167-decies-road-ballyfermot-dublin-10/4477851

That house is SCREAMING probate sale

retalivity

tea and coffee wrote: »

On the portobello hipster house: without the lean to, where would the bedroom be in those houses? Doesn't seem to be one. Where do the neighbouring hipsters sleep?

There's 2 more on the same street for sale that both have 2 bedrooms squeezed into 50sqm or less. Finished much better, but prices are eye-watering

€495k - https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-1-harty-place-dublin-8/3230734
€375k - https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/bungalow-12-harty-place-south-circular-road-dublin-8/2945254

The estate-agent lingo is hilarious:
"A fully paved rear courtyard is located off the second bedroom which also benefits from the south facing aspect, ideal for al fresco dining. " - Cheers for the 9 tiles needed, don't think you'll see much sun except for a few days in June when it is highest in the sky
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"The accommodation is very much open plan " - Err...a hallway between living room and kitchen and a dining room under the stairs kinda goes against the spirit of "open plan"
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KevRossi wrote: »

For €215,000 you can have this 2-bed with loads of space for expansion. About 15 mins from Sligo town centre by car, or less than 40 by bike. But the location.... I know it well from cycling out there and it's incredible, pics on Strret View don't do it justice as it's a bit cloudy and overcast. Build a small platform on the lakeshore to swim from and you're good to go.

Streetview - turn around for the house. https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3381857,-8.4060944,3a,75y,124.42h,82.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxgBydOc7va0XWcqScDNv8A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/glencar-north-sligo-sligo/4346633

Would make a good holiday home investment.

tea and coffee

On the portobello hipster house: without the lean to, where would the bedroom be in those houses? Doesn't seem to be one. Where do the neighbouring hipsters sleep?

L1011

Muahahaha wrote: »

Does that happen quite a bit to land around old disused railways? Thought I read on here before about farmers helping themselves to CIE land along a disused railway line

Yes. Very common to move a fence to the other side of a closed line or put an unofficial crossing in etc.

This is a closed station on an active line though so I'd hope it was sold off properly

KevRossi

€199,000 for this. It's about €70,000 cheaper than most of the similar houses in the area and it's been for sale for months. Needs a good clean out, new floors, new wallpaper/paint, probably new windows and a boiler. No pics of bathroom so probably needs to be refurbished along with the kitchen. Probably good value if you're not too fussy. If you're handy with DIY and you laid into it for 4 weeks you'd get the important bits done and you could do the rest over few months, saving a fair few quid on similar houses. With the extension at the back it's easy to make a 3 bed (one an ensuite) out of it later on.

I don't know how good or bad that end of the road is, or how much anti-social behaviour goes on in the park opposite it, but you're 25 mins walk from the Phoenix Park, less than 10 on a bike. Chapelizod, Inchicore and Kilmainham are very near and Ballyer has most shops like Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, etc. There's a few shops 2 mins walk down the road as well.

Bus outside the door (literally) goes every 10 mins in the morning and evening, every 15 outside of that.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/167-decies-road-ballyfermot-dublin-10/4477851

For Forks Sake

josip wrote: »

And if things end up the same way as the Field, you can be buried just across the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qb58KZJSQiMBBNQK8

Be less labour intensive to throw the corpse in the lake beside it.

josip

L1011 wrote: »

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

And if things end up the same way as the Field, you can be buried just across the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qb58KZJSQiMBBNQK8

James 007

TheValeyard wrote: »

And no actual picture of the room?

The bedroom is out the back, definately only a single bed in it:rolleyes:
https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/365565694730836387/

Muahahaha

L1011 wrote: »

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

Does that happen quite a bit to land around old disused railways? Thought I read on here before about farmers helping themselves to CIE land along a disused railway line

[Deleted User]

L1011 wrote: »

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

It'll just end up at auction and someone will buy it. People that lose property get very sentimental about it, and become tough guys, but more often than not end up back in their box when the real 'tough guys' show up.

L1011

Tabnabs wrote: »

A very unusual property, an old train station, including the signal cabin and goods sheds.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/ballinlough-station-ballinlough-co-roscommon/4511817

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

[Deleted User]

Larsso30 wrote: »

I've lived there and for the life of me I cannot understand why the prices are surging! (apologies to anyone from drogheda!)

Prices are surging because you left! :P

Seriously though, I live there, and I do think EA's are just using "old" asking prices or artificially lowering them a tad to reel people in. I've a good idea of what houses are going for in the area around me, and all the asking prices are 20-30k lower (on houses underneath a 250k price bracket - can't comment above that as I'm not really looking at those).

For example, there's an estate near me, where nothing has sold for less than 195k recently, but houses coming up in that area are still advertised around 170k.

Whereas if they advertised them at 190k, and they went for 195k, the same prices would be achieved, but the stats of houses selling 'way over' their asking wouldn't be as blown out of proportion.

That said, things seem calmer now than they once did - in Feb-Apr things were going stupidly high

EDIT: Although that is due to supply id say, as there wasn't much in the way of new builds at the time, and second hand had dried up a bit. According to Daft there's 121 properties for sale at the moment in Drogheda, in March that was as low as 86.

Gregor Samsa

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

Also, a single bed is perfectly good for riding it's the sleeping together part afterwards that's difficult :cool:

You prefect the spooning after a bit, and a little later the climbing-over-your-sleeping-partner-to-go-to-the-bathdoom-without-waking-them.

It's the disapproving glares from your rent-mammy, her adult daughter and the yappy house dog that are the real killers.

Larsso30

Muahahaha wrote: »

According to a report out last week Drogheda house prices are surging at the moment, they claim it has got the fastest house price inflation in the country

Its a good job of modernising a small space. Did anyone watch the video though? The estate agent did a single take for a 6+ minute long video and it was all going great until the last minute or so. She was out in the back garden and described it as "very quiet" but in the background you can clearly hear the sirens of an ambulance. Living there you would hear them constantly as its only a few hundred metres from Lourdes hospital which covers the entire north east area up to Monaghan and Cavan. Outside of Dublin & Cork it is one of the countries busiest hospitals so regular sirens in that area are pretty much the norm every day. The agent would have known that but it didnt stop her describing the garden as "very quiet" even when the evidence in her own video was showing the opposite.
It starts at 5.30 and by the time the video finishes at 6.20 the ambulance is getting closer to the house so it gets louder
https://www.realestatealliance.ie/6-windmill-road-drogheda-louth/700184/tour

I've lived there and for the life of me I cannot understand why the prices are surging! (apologies to anyone from drogheda!)

Larsso30

KevRossi wrote: »

For €215,000 you can have this 2-bed with loads of space for expansion. About 15 mins from Sligo town centre by car, or less than 40 by bike. But the location.... I know it well from cycling out there and it's incredible, pics on Strret View don't do it justice as it's a bit cloudy and overcast. Build a small platform on the lakeshore to swim from and you're good to go.

Streetview - turn around for the house. https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3381857,-8.4060944,3a,75y,124.42h,82.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxgBydOc7va0XWcqScDNv8A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/glencar-north-sligo-sligo/4346633

This is stunning scenery. House is impressive too.

Is the one next to it abandoned?

Wabbit Ears

punisher5112 wrote: »

On the swords one it's actually a really sad time to show us all what many have to endure by paying through the nose to live.... A house share with a mother and daughter and a dog, they will most likely not tolerate you using the sitting room etc and probably guessing here but restrict kitchen times and also look for you to be out mostly.....

Plus, being owner-occupied, you're paying above house share rates without any of the protections of a tenancy.

punisher5112

https://www.realestate...da-louth/700184/tour

On that Drogheda one I'd be more concerned about getting the bins in and out with all those steps etc....

On the swords one it's actually a really sad time to show us all what many have to endure by paying through the nose to live.... A house share with a mother and daughter and a dog, they will most likely not tolerate you using the sitting room etc and probably guessing here but restrict kitchen times and also look for you to be out mostly.....

The Mighty Quinn

Deleted User wrote: »

Regarding the swords one, why would you highlight a single bed? Any adult I know, even sleeping on their own, uses a double bed?

Is "single bed" code for "no riding"? Or is the room just tiny, i wonder (it doesn't seem to be pictured?)

Oh you can be absolutely 100% certain it is not a double bed.

Also, a single bed is perfectly good for riding

it's the sleeping together part afterwards that's difficult :cool:

2ndcoming

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

So, not hipsters then.

No, the hipsters are mostly the ones willing to pay the exorbitant rents to live in a hovel because it's in a cool area. The owners / sellers are the chancers.

[Deleted User]

Regarding the swords one, why would you highlight a single bed? Any adult I know, even sleeping on their own, uses a double bed?

Is "single bed" code for "no riding"? Or is the room just tiny, i wonder (it doesn't seem to be pictured?)

[Deleted User]

Muahahaha wrote: »

According to a report out last week Drogheda house prices are surging at the moment, they claim it has got the fastest house price inflation in the country

Yeah I heard that, alright. Prices are booming here, but i think that statistic has a lot to do with houses asking prices not being adjusted at all.

Houses that are selling for 200k are still being listed at 170k for example.

It starts at 5.30 and by the time the video finishes at 6.20 the ambulance is getting closer to the house so it gets louder
https://www.realestatealliance.ie/6-windmill-road-drogheda-louth/700184/tour

The upside (if you consider it one) would be that the sirens are generally only during the day. At night, you'd rarely hear them, as people don't have accidents at night time.

(seriously, though, at night time the junctions off that road, to the hospital, are generally quiet, so nee-naws aren't used to attract attention. That house is, to be fair, on the "good side" of the road, in that it's away from the hospital itself and the junctions the ambulances go through.

A potentially more annoying concern would be the noise (cheering/etc) from sports at Droghed United, and the hassle those games bring in terms of traffic and litter. However, again, you're at the opposite end of the road, which is good. A bad thing, though, is the road is a one-way road, and you're at the start of it. It can be congested a lot, especially with people going to work in the hospital, and unless you park elsewhere, you've to travel the full road before you can go anywhere else.

There's also busy schools across in the area too (bothar brugha) that would add to the congestion. It can be a very congested area. I wouldn't live there personally (the noise of traffic would annoy me) and when you take into consideration what is available for the same asking price in Drogheda, i don't see this selling at that price, although I am very open to correction on that (and naturally, for the seller's sake, I hope they do well out of it).

A 'real' budget (ie; sale agreed price, rather than asking price) of 250k in Drogheda, should still be plenty to get you a 3 bed terraced with a drive way in good condition in Drogheda, not far from the town but outside the centre, to avoid traffic on your door step.

[Deleted User]

Purple Mountain wrote: »

It's all fine and dandy when you have a family at home but then they fly the nest and you and your OH (if you have held onto them too!) suddenly have all this unnecessary extra room to rattle around in.
I see it with my home place too.

Houses like that need staff and a large family staying there. Extended even.

AlmightyCushion

KevRossi wrote: »

€1,050 per month for 1.5 rooms in a house share with the landlady and her daughter. In Swords, the metropolis of North Dublin [sic]. The landlady has spared no expense here, having purchased...

What more could you want for €12,600 per annum.

https://rentberry.com/ie/apartments/2092938-one-br-swords-swords-village-ed-l-ie?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcfz6fPB8QIVkVAVCB2WHQGpEAEYASABEgLR3_D_BwE

I assumed that bit in bold was you adding your own level of sarcasm to it. I can't believe they actually put that in the ad. It really is like a parody.

BattleCorp

josip wrote: »

I'd expect both mother and daughter to be included for that price.

I'd want to see a pic of the mother and daughter before I'd commit to that deal.

KevRossi

retalivity wrote: »

I'm just surprised she is not charging €1,166pm to maximise the free tax relief under the rent a room scheme.

I've no doubt she'll pull €100 a month for various bills to max out the €14k.