Looks like they've cut off the access to the building at the rear. So no parking unless you change the front entrance, which might not be that hard to do.
The ceiling tiles could be changed, I presume. If so, they wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me.
What would be a dealbreaker, is no driveway or private offstreet parking. "2 car parking permits available".
For a €1.5m house, I want my own parking space.
Jesus. I think you need to stay away from these kind of houses.
Yeah, I can understand that for a premises that was originally designed as commercial.... but a period house that's been used as commercial for a time?
anyway, this is dragging the thread miles off topic (something I gave out about myself only recently!!) so I'll keep my wondering to myself.
Back to horrible/historic/hairy houses!!
You said small change to be fair. And people buying a 1.5m house aren’t going to be delighted to have to immediately spend tens of thousands to put in something you’d expect to be there already. People buying this wont be millionaires I wouldn’t have thought.
I didn’t say cheap. I said it was an easy fix and small change for someone who’s spending €1.5m on a house
I didnt think it would be cheap, it was another poster that said that, id agree with you, unless it is hidden behind the suspended ceiling it would be expensive id have thought.
there is an exemption to allow commercial premises empty for more than 2 years to be converted to residential use without the requirement for planning permission.
Would you really need permission to turn it back into residential use?
That's a suspended ceiling. Original ceiling and coving probably still there,
there is planning permission for change of use for the mews at the rear but nothing for the building itself. that planning permission was granted in 2015.
I'd imagine it's a quick fix to make it look like a residential garden.
I wonder has it planning permission for change of use from commercial to residential?
To reinstate the ceiling, coving and ceiling rose in keeping with the rest of the house would definitely not be cheap.
To do it on the cheap would look as bad if not worse (ok, maybe not!) than what's there.
The new owner might be happy with a plain ceiling, but if you were going to change it for the sale, you'd need be be doing it right, IMO.
What offends me far more than the ceiling tiles in the bedroom is the sea of plastic on the ground and on the walls in the backgarden. WTF is that about?!
anybody that buys it for a residence will gut the place. no point spending money on lights that are going to be ripped out anyway..
Most auctioneers will say spend no money beyond decluttering, repainting in neutral colours and try to price to get a bidding war. The difference in price between say putting in a new bathroom and a wreck of a bathroom is not much to a buyer. If you spend money it's likely new owner may rip it straight out. That said a few thousand improvements may create a bidding war versus only one bidder.
In terms of lotto win, I think we should all agree to the same euromillions numbers and then if we win, we all win and we can vote on one large mansion to share, maybe the stardust place, or lighthouse, or a vegan only old convent, chickens optional.
i understand, what im saying is, if i was going to the bother of staging it and wanted to sell it as a residential property i would have had that fixed (if its relatively inexpensive, im not so sure that it would be inexpensive though)
As has been said it’s been staged for a sale. If someone was living there, I’m sure they would have fixed it
No real point in doing so before a sale
Most likely it was offices/consulting rooms until recently. Streetview pic from Jul 2018
if its a small change you'd think they would have done it?
in a bedroom? a bit id say.
Each to their own but it would be the first thing id change.
it’d bother me but it’s an easy fix and if I’ve the money to buy that house, it’s small change to get the ceilings done right
Honestly, wouldn't bother me. How often do you spend time staring at the ceiling?
I've heard of a home office but this is ridiculous
I mean..... there's staging for sale, and there's trying to make a silk purse (premium home) out of a sow's ear (period house converted to offices).
Fine house, though, in a seriously good location.
Looks good until you see the ceiling tiles...
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/fern-house-126-ranelagh-ranelagh-dublin-6/4653132
Only very light traffic on it nowadays so unlikely to happen again.
First thought when I saw that house, so close to a main road, was that I would have a row of reinforced concrete pillars across the front to mitigate that exact possibility!
It's on the outskirts of a nice village and a couple of hundred meters from the motorway, needs updating but should sell. I remember years ago before the motorway was built, a car went out of control and ended up buried in the front wall of the house, must be early 80's or thereabouts.
Where do the other two little pigs live?
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