Fancy living in Daniel O'Donnells old apartment?
Be sure to get the gas checked by a registered installer.
An actual house you could possibly live in for 25k if you do a bit of work to it, been a while since one of those appear. Prices must be coming down a tiny bit. Kitchen is surprisingly spacious looking
Wonder why the house is censored on google maps?
Far far too expensive for the Leitrim.
That one was on here a couple of weeks ago. Very odd land situation.
That's a fine crop of ragwort they have out the back 😲
A nice A rated house for under 200k. A traditional look on exterior, but modern interior.
Dreadful toxic stuff! I pull every dratted plant that dares to sully the wild flower verges ..
The estate agent, Ryan serhant is on a reality TV show, Million Dollar Listing New York, and is somewhat of a celebrity.
Nice little city pad
Pyrite report available on request ...
How long does it take for structural damage to show if there is pyrite? The house is 4 years old and look OK in the photos.
Any Donegal house that was built in the last 15-20 years and the price appears to be cheap, i'd be running a million miles from.
It would make you wonder. Seems to good to be true. Maybe it does have Mica. If that's the case, then it's just money for a site.
Fùck TikTok though.
Why?
There are concerns over the safety of user's data.
€200,000 doesn't seem cheap to me. But yea I'd get the house tested by more than one company if I was in the market for that house. Afaik Donegal is the worst place for pyrite/mica.
While Donegal is one of the cheaper counties to buy a house in, this isn't bad value if the blocks don't contain mica or any other harmful contaminant.
The average house price of a 3 bed semi in Donegal is €136k according to this.....ahem........ very reputable source. 😁 A house on its own like this would be more expensive.
Given that the house is pretty modern, is A rated and appears to be in good condition, I wouldn't consider €200k to be a very high price for that house.
I think to people who live in counties such as Dublin think it's cheap as they wouldn't get a 'shite in a shoe box' for €200k. There the average is over €350k for a three bed semi and you wouldn't get anything like that Donegal house in Dublin for that money.
A MICA test has been carried out and a report is available on request.
The pictures dont show it very well, but you can see what I would consider significant damage to outside render given the house is only 4 years old. Definitely issues. If it was MICA free they would say as much in the ad. Clearly hoping to get some gullible blow in to buy it - but they cant put their hands up and say "we didnt mislead"
You would be looking for cracks, bulges and lifted floors, and there does not appear to be any inside or in the render outside. There is one very carefully placed mat in a doorway that could be a danger point, but other than that the interior walls appear to be pristine. Not sure what the marks on the outside are, do they imply movement?
I be surprised if there is an mica issue with that houses. The mica problem was well highlighted 5 years ago so I would be very surprised if it was an issue. However because of the history there I would get a mica test done.
Sorry to go off topic, but here's a recent example of the type of thread I was talking about.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058264665/building-a-flat-pack-log-cabin
Not in a house only 4 years old - for most it takes close to a decade before structural warping starts to happen.
Pic 13 shows a good lot of discolouration running horizontally across the entire front of the house (except for cladded porch) - having seen many positive mica houses, that looks like one of the early signs. In 5 years time those could be big horizontal spider cracks, in 10yrs big deep chunks.
Just for some more price context:
This house at similar size and slightly more remote location (albeit with a neighbour right next door) is listed at 360k. Worse BER, not nearly as modern a finish inside, but much higher price. A house of the quality of the OP at only 200k is very suspect unfortunately.
I always wonder why the attitude re Leitrim? I lived a few happy years there
I'm not a mica expert but this doesn't look right to me. It looks like cracks have been filled in over the windows. Without a doubt it looks like it was patched up.
House with a grand load of land for 60k, and the house isn't right on the edge of the road like it is with most of these
Looks like a good deal to be honest. You wouldn't get a 3 acre site with a derelict house around here for twice that.
It comes from a generation growing up listening to Dustin the Turkey taking the piss out of Leitrim on Den TV/The Den
The Westmeath house might not qualify as a 'house' for replacement purposes, its very far gone, it would have to be knocked completely. A buyer would want to check with the Planning office - that's exactly the sort of question they will give a fairly clear answer on at pre-planning stage.
The argument (in some Planning areas anyway) is that if too many houses pop up in an area they become a (something) meaning a group of houses that require services. Once you get beyond a certain number of houses the CoCo has an obligation to provide services and they are trying to avoid these scattered groups and have people living in larger groupings depending on the County Plan zoning requirements. I am willing to be corrected on any of this but that is the gist of it as explained to me by a planner. The planners are stuck with houses that were built up to about 10 or 15 years ago when planning was more of a free for all, and now they are trying to rationalise it.
Edit - 'something' - hub maybe?
