Seems reasonable to me considering the land as well. Easy enough to sell an a house in Dublin and buy that instead and be mortgage free.
It was a completely empty field in 2000, but the entire building was there after 2005
Thanks looksee - that confirms it was built in 2005. From photos the house looks very poor quality for a house built as recent as 2005 though - aside from the bad paint job the finish is very ropey. I would love to see the results of a survey on that house.
I bought a house built around the same time with a similar 'artistic' approach (which I liked in general but was roughly done) and while the house was basically sound and well built it needed a lot of work with some very similar dodgy bits.
What a beautiful house - looking through those pictures actually made me sad 😥.
Sale agreed for €300k+ - hopefully to someone with VERY deep pockets, and the good taste to restore it to it's former glory.
That's a lovely house, large garden and the location is ace.
That will go over asking. Beautiful finish and great location, my only quibble is they should have added an ensuite, or at the very least a guest loo.
I would love to have the money to properly restore and furnish a house like that.
It was obviously a self build and not thought out fully given the exposed pipes. I wonder if it complied with building regs at the time?
It is strange that the right side of building (looking at photo) is not included in sale
Self build was my thought too.
I had just looked at the pictures so missed that. It is odd, I wonder does that portion have its own entrance and driveway? There's windows looking out at the steps of the main house too.
I too missed this when I looked at it first. From the description on the website the adjoining property was a solicitors practice belonging to the original owner. It says the offices dont form part of the sale - it doesnt say if there is currently a business operating there. I would assume it must have its own entrance and driveway given it was a business.
It would definitely turn me off from buying this property.
You can see in one of the arial photos that it has its own entrance and grounds.
They are really abusing those lenses that make the rooms appear bigger than they are. Look at picture 6, the kitchen door looks way too small for the frame. In pictures 3 and 5, the radiator looks like it is about a mile long. Then in picture 4 it looks normal sized.
The first 3 pictures of the living room are like going to a house of mirrors, one angle its loooong, next is normal, then from the other side its stretching away again. Awful camerawork
I find that a bit annoying when I see photos done like that.
OMG that hall is orange! 😂
I hope they are planning a balcony for the first floor 😲
A potential treasure for 75k? Lots of work needed obviously but a 3 bed house on 0.25 acre with double garage, large garden, some original features in tact. Lack of more than one indoor photo possibly means the rest of it is a mess...
Or a bridge.....
That has to be a flood risk in heavy rain, it's like the house was plonked into a swimming pool.
"That has to be a flood risk in heavy rain, it's like the house was plonked into a swimming pool."
Which is what the garden becomes after a few days of heavy rain.
This is a bit of a strange one, has been in half a dozen auctions in the last year but hasn't sold, not sure why but probably price related. Loads of other houses on this estate have sold since for between 140 and 175ish. Can't understand why the current owners don't spend a grand or so patching up the wall between sitting and dining rooms and the place would look much better. Needs a bit of TLC but the area is good.
Could be a lot of trepidation in the market at the moment about renovation costs. There's just such a demand now that cost of materials are flying up. But yes, I'm still surprised a builder hasn't snapped this up as a project on the side.
Is that not a a supporting wall? I'd imagine you would need to put in an RSJ across the whole wall to support the floor above which means a LOT more costs and time.
Those houses are terrible for insulation also, pretty much none. A lot of headache.
No, definitely not a supporting wall, the joists go the other way. I've owned a few of those houses and have had to lift floorboards to run electrics so am sure of that. You're correct about insulation, a good few on that estate have installed the external type and the grant covered a lot of the cost. It's a decent area, mostly homeowners so I was surprised it's been for sale for over a year.
Maybe it's nothing to do with the condition of the house. What are the neighbours like? Any of them have horses tied up outside?
No, it's a nice area with mostly owner occupied houses. As I said earlier, houses in the same street or around the corner are going for between 140-175ish
There is no way the insulation grant would pay most of the cost for external insulation. Have had 3 houses done and the grant is about 3k and the cost was €12k about 10 years ago for a similar sized property and the grant didn't go up. It used to be by household and not building so I did manage to get 3 grants for one building which still cost €10k.
You are right about the joists for the floor but that doesn't mean the wall isn't supporting the wall above it like in my house. Looking at that house it could be a patrician wall upstairs so minimum support needed.
This is shocking because while not everybody's taste I am pretty sure this was an art deco house originally like a few in the area. It appears somebody did it up in the 80s and took out the original feature. The windows are an absolute shame along with the pillars they added. The location seems nice but that road blocks up with traffic a lot and sea protection is an issue too. A lot of money for a lot of pain
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