It is affordable and really close to the city centre. Houses around the corner from it that are about twice the size go for €650k. It is all realtive but that house is going to be worth a lot more in the terms of a mortgage.
300k for 43 square metres, that's not good Ray. Not for the average buyer at least.
That really isn't a bad price or layout. Could rent it out for 2k a month easily. It is a really well serviced location and East Wall is slowly being gentrified.
I'm guessing small shop with what was a wide door window bricked into just a wide window.
If you look at the streetview, and set it back to 2009, there was a separate door into that area. Possibly the downstairs was an office?
Trying to work out what that front room was in a previous life. First thought was garage..
Here's another house that similar to the one in Portobello has 2 ensuite bathrooms but no 'guest' or main bathroom. It's slightly less pricey (😁) as it's in East Wall and not on the canal in Portobello!
Pretty shocking - 4 bedsits squeezed into a small house. I actually thought these were illegal - maybe they get around the law though by each unit having their own bathroom.
Especially as the 8% yield is pushed as the USP. Also has a BER F just to add to the misery.
The property has been well maintained over the years and has had upgrades to electrical fire safety systems
i.e. whacked in half a dozen new smoke detectors as required under law.
Its just depressing that this a very real example of one of the outcomes of a housing crisis on those who can least afford it.
The first one wasn't too bad, but they get steadily grimmer from there.
I think the cooking facilities are provided by something like this https://www.vikingdirect.ie/en/igenix-mini-oven-with-electric-grill-and-double-hotplates-ig7130-p-1012486
Given how little clearance is left above them, you wouldn't fit much more than a shallow pan on there.
It says a lot about this country that it is legal to exploit fellow humans like that and they are actually proudly advertising it as well.
That is grim. No cookers, only a hot plate in one, two microwaves in the first one. Only pics of one of the 4 bathrooms as well...I wonder why.
Slum landlord investment opportunity anyone?
It sold for €630,000 back in 2015.
Also 'front garden' is a parking spot. Beside a restaurant, busy area.
The house next door sold for €640,000 in Jan 2016. Then for €823,000 in Jan 2020. No idea if anything was done to them.
That portobello one has a small garden on the front (south), and opens directly on to the canal.
Its nice, but not 1.2m nice.
It's a big enough job. In both cases you're moving a shower, or else giving up on one. Few grand either way with door frames, new tiling etc.
You can do it with the bathroom off the main bedroom and use a very narrow door, but then you've lost the privacy element of having an ensuite in the first place. I like the house, it's just a very odd set up for something where so much money has been invested into. Some people don't mind someone walking through their bedroom, I'd never allow it.
They could have out the guest WC in the bathroom, or made the walk in wardrobe smaller.
That Portobello is gorgeous but not worth 1.2 mill. It's really only practical for a couple or a single person, not a family. Imagine the noise downstairs if children were running up or down the stairs?
The plans could be drawn incorrectly, and it might be a jack and Jill bathroom.
The finish is lovely on it. For a single person working in cc, that would be lovely.
Doesn't look like that big of a job to knock a door through to the landing.
It's so you dont have to climb in the bath with your bare arse on show to the garda with the binoculars on the road
I was invited to dinner in an ex-boss's apartment in the US years ago. It was a nice one bed apartment, with a large living/dining/kitchen area, and then a small room upstairs, which was used as an office and guest room (futon). But the only bathroom was the en-suite in her (and her partner's) bedroom. I held it in.
I was htinking that, the big bathroom off the main bedroom must be the main bathroom but you'd have to go through the bedroom to get to it.
The warped shutter which does not stay fully open or close property is all I saw. Probably from years of having to go around closings all the downstairs shutters each night, to keep the robbers out.
Edit: I just noticed the round paper lamp shades, 70s bedsit flash back!
Notice the sockets in/on the skirting board, you have not been allowed to do this since (I believe) some time in the 70s. Looks like a lot of work was done, but no rewire?
It's lovely but with the staircase in the living room that's a bit of an issue. You couldn't be watching something of an evening on the TV or listening to music without it affecting someone upstairs.
Also, there's a CCTV camera in the living room ceiling 😲
This is the house in Portobello. Sorry, but where does a visitor go to the toilet? Both bathrooms are en-suites. There isn't even a guest WC, let alone a bathroom that someone staying overnight could use, or am I missing something?
And the other lamp, with stand and shade crooked in different directions 😧
For a house with a lot of straight lines, there's a horrible amount of twitch-inducing misalignments!!!
..And the crooked plant stand
The sky lights help a lot though. I think it's great, and way out of many a budget. I only hope there's some black out blinds on the bedroom Sky lights otherwise summer sleeping could be a problem.
It’s nicely done, but an insane price for a north facing garden flat. Note that despite it being a sunny day, all the photos have been taken with the lights on. Massive red flag for me…..how dark would it be on there on a rainy grey day
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w7.vanillicon.com/v2/761dc761e98b4e4a2ae41c6abf8a928b.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w0.vanillicon.com/v2/07abd39dc4f0afde3c391afc78cc920e.svg)