Perfect for a Canamericanadian. €400k plus a generous tip. 😜
That must be who they are targeting.
Well I was being generous by allowing 10k per acre but no you are right, stoney land in Connemara is worth fcuk all unless it comes with planning permission, which that 5.5 acres site asking 400k does not.
I misread that at first as 40k, and thought that was a lot. 😂
I was also in a studio except Galway rather than Dublin. I'm actually looking for a place to move to atm and it is very difficult to get any where. Any place at a reasonable price has a tonne of people looking to view. I travelled a long distance to view a place and didn't get it so now when I enquire I ask how many people were interested and they say a lot and I'd just leave it and don't even bother to view it as I know I will not get it.
Anyway back to the point I wish I could find another studio to live in. Oh yea another point I have a car so alot of places above shops in main streets are out for me since no free parking.
Just remembered when I was a student back in the mid-80’s, I had a, what would now be called a studio, in Rathgar that was smaller than that place. I loved it, you could open the fridge with your foot while lying in bed. Rent was €29 a week.
Would you even get €50k for 5.5 acres of stoney "agricultural" land?
Yeah that is true, buying a ruin of a house is no guarantee of getting planning, Wicklow CC can be sticklers on this.
400k is an insane price though for a ruin and 5.5 acres of stoney land. If it was just the land for sale it wouldnt be worth much more than 50k. So lobbing on an extra 350k to the price because it once had a stone cottage on it is pure chancery.
Also the seller isnt accepting any of the risk. So if someone bought that for 400k and got refused planning permisson then what they would have is a stony field barely worth 50k.The refusal of permission will be on the public record meaning no one else would buy it as a site. Something like that should be offered for sale subject to planning permission and allow the purchaser to see if planning will be granted before the sale closes. Otherwise a purchaser is taking on a risk of 350k with no guarantees it will work out.
It depends on Planning rules, a ruin is not necessarily a cottage. How flexible the interpretation is depends largely on the local Planning, though the general rules are supposed to be national. If for example there is an old cottage that was most recently used as a shed or animal shelter then it probably will not qualify as a cottage, its not as simple as 'there is a pile of stones that looks as though it was a cottage, therefore it is a cottage'.
The important thing though is that it was a cottage, so this means that planning permission is going to be far easier to get than if it was just a greenfield site.
Still fcukin mental money though.
In fairness it is listed as a site in the search results. But a ruin yes, cottage no.
That's some price 400k. Talk about chancing the arm.
Then that house on the island near Athlone is another chancer but not as much as that land in Connemara.
A heap of stone they have the absolute gall to describe as a "cottage" and a few acres of sh1t farm land for 400k
While I would applaud the idea of creating comfortable holiday homes, and it nestles nicely into its surroundings, there is very little Old Irish about that. It is not even appealing with its off centre front door and those odd shaped windows apparently dropped in randomly.
To me the only thing really wrong with this is the price €1250 is an absolute outrage and demonstrates why we really need rent control.
If this place was say 400 a month it would serve a valuable purpose.
No 5 €¦.there is nothing OLD about this development€¦ it is all late nineteen seventies €¦when the idea of timber frame was NEW €¦. and the idea was to build simple cosy homes for the burgeoning second home owner 😂
yeah like how are you supposed the wash the dishes? In the lake or something? Or be lugging loads of 5 litre water bottles on your boat from 'the mainland'?
130k is way over priced for that anyway, the seller in New Zealand is chancing their arm that someone has more money than sense. It could actually be a scam given they are trying to sell it themselves from abroad. Anyone paying a 13k deposit for that into a foreign bank account has no comeback
"Built from local stone"
Looks like an off the shelf land commission cottage to me. The ones of that era are typically mass concrete and flaky
(basing that on the half dozen we looked at in that region)
I agree... to a point. I wouldn't mind the lack of electricity so much (although the compost toilet doesn't sound too appealing) you could get a generator, but the lack of water is the deal breaker. Living 24 hrs in the modern world without running water is a nightmare never mind perpetually.
That's very true. 😊
While the decoration is probably not what most people would go for, you somehow get the impression that whoever lived there was content living there and enjoyed their house.
I am only after seeing this now. 😂
And you can sit watching the microwave instead of watching tv. 😂
This also caught my eye in the ad. 'Dublin 2 is a vibrant and energetic village just 15 minutes walk from the city centre of Dublin.' Dublin 2 is a village, eh?
I don’t think that the cupboard doors will even swing fully open in the space between the worktop and the bed
It's the little little touches that make the difference - like being able to have a little rest on the stool after walking so far from the kitchen to use the microwave.
Tempting! 🤔 The island is uninhabited according to Wikipedia.
At the other end of the social scale, you have this little gem. Couldn’t swing a cat comes to mind. 😬
https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/studio-apartment-flat-3-55-richmond-street-south-dublin-2/3492400
Too close to the neighbours for my liking...
I like it, but no running water or electricity is a step too far. It would be very cold and damp.
Be hard to get a crowd for your own dance hall there too.
My favourite is the sitting room, because it's literally a sitting room, there's not much else you can do in it.
Not at that price!
You know, the way the world is at the minute. It's very very tempting.
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