There's plenty room down the back for a garage, there's already a fine shed there, accessed via the lane that runs along the rear of the houses.
Lovely house, but the traffic and the frequent stench of rotting algae and seaweed out there would be a dealbreaker for me.
I saw this house back on the market and thought it was interesting. 66 Ashgrove, Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire
Sold for 423,000 in May 2023 according to the ppr (based on 395k asking)
Now asking 695,000 having been renovated
Before pics:
After pics:
Upgrades worth the extra money?
That is the most confusing house layout I have ever seen! I have absolutely no sense of the flow through the house, or where anything is. But it seems to have been done to a high standard. Although I HATE the bathroom tiles.
It's also been extended by approx 30%. And the BER brought from E3 to A3. And the gardens vastly improved.
So probably yes.
id agree, if it suited you the way its been done.
to go and line up the workers and get it all done would be a lot of hassle and a lot of money.
Sitting room appears to be tiny. Kitchen looks too dark - I can't make out if they have a blind down in the kitchen or the window is facing into the wall of the covered in alleyway. That downstairs wouldn't work for me - I would need to do alot more work to that house so for that price it would be a no from me
I don't think they have extended it at all looking at the two footprints side by side. They have completely remodelled the downstairs to include 2 studies where there used to be a bathroom and separate toilet and they have added an upstairs bathroom where there was none before. Hard to imagine putting that much work and effort into remodelling to move so soon afterwards (unless that was the plan all along)
Strike all of that, I just looked again they have added a huge extension…I need to finish my morning cuppa before posting 😂
Yeah, considering they added an extension, the use of the resulting space is certainly not to my taste - but then, I'm not a huge fan of all-in-one living spaces (i.e. kitchen/dining/living). The smell of sprouts you boiled two days ago wafting around while you're trying to relax, or the view of the washing up created when you sit down to eat your dinner etc.
The kitchen layout wouldn’t be for me. The window faces into a study and has been covered over. I want a kitchen on an outside wall, easier for any issues with drains, extraction etc I can’t figure out the layout outside. Is there an alcove to the left of the white door? It’s not there on the plan but looks like it in the photo. Maybe for a down pipe into a gully ??
The rooms all look small, dark and poky, the upstairs bathroom is a big bonus but the loo is too close to the shower.
As said above, the layout is very poor downstairs, it wouldn't be a comfortable house to live in or keep clean.
Could anyone mae a guestimate on how much those improvements would have cost?
If it sold for asking, how much profit would they have made?
(eta) th extension looks like it could be used for rent-a-room?
Yeah but is the lane big enough to get cars down it and turn? Plus again only takes one neighbour to be a w*nker and block the lane (I've seen this happen before in similar situations)
Now putting on my princess crown.…it's a massive garden wouldn't fancy the weekly shop back and forth. Then trekking down with kids in the rain etc.
Yeah I get your point but for that amount of money I want daily tasks easier.
Gonna live up to my user name and be a total princess!
While I think old council houses are extremely well built and rooms are usually good proportions etc. It would absolutely kill me to pay 700K for an ex council house (I'm not familiar with the area but that house looks extremely like the old council houses near me so I'm making an assumption)
I think even calling it Dun Laoghaire is a stretch, it seems to be more Monkstown despite being next to IADT
The extension, remedial works, new layout upstairs, upgrading insulation, solar panels, more than likely rewire and replumb, external work, new kitchen etc - I'd say they'd be lucky to break even, everything costs a fortune now.
Maybe someone knowledgeable could give a better answer, but it looks like a case of buyer's regret to me. It's clearly being lived in rather than staged to flip.
https://www.sherryfitz.ie/buy/house/dublin/glenasmole/glenasmole-lodge-glenasmole 4 million to live in cold looking house in co Dublin…
That house in Monkstown has one plus it has the biggest back garden of all the neighbouring houses. Some of the neighbours don't even get sun light in their garden as they are so small. I like to sit out in the sun in the evening time during the summer but not everyone is like me.
Too high a price, hence why it hasn't sold for the several years it has been on the market. The locals are shocked at how much he thinks he can sell it for, although the area does normally command a premium. It features in one of the RTE most expensive houses in Ireland show.
really? ive never heard of glensamole i have to say.
That's a big part of the attraction, one of the best kept secrets in Dublin.
fair enough! ill believe it when i see someone pay 4m for that gaff!
It’s on 220 acres so even at a low price of 10k/acre that’s 2.2 million for the land.
That's fabulous! If I had 4 million (and another 1 to redecorate a lot of it, and another 1 to heat it), I'd buy it!
I absolutely love it!
Love that it hasn't been modernised.....I could do a bit of decorating, be grand😉 love it. 4 million a bit pricey though....
A MAGICAL MOUNTAIN SPORTING ESTATE!!!
Stop shouting 🤨
Nice house though, i always like a corridor long enough for a horror movie scene. They even have a photo of the bedroom where the spooky evil twins sleep
Not sure if this was posted. Jim Sheridan selling up.
https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/04/04/look-inside-jim-sheridans-d4-home-where-martin-scorsese-brad-pitt-and-bono-hung-out-for-25m/
The 220 is commonage so it’s not yours, you just get the right to graze animals in it. You can’t enclose it etc.
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Only problem is the market rate for that land is €500 per acre! Putting the 220 acre valuation at about €110,000.
Hence the complete lack of buyers at €4m
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/state-to-buy-5000-acres-of-nama-lands-in-wicklow-mountains/34935433.html
For anyone thinking "how hard can it be to renovate an old stone cottage?" Have a look through this series of videos from youtube about an English couple doing exactly this, on their own. WARNING: There are 32 episodes and you're likely to lose a few days to it, but worth watching in fits and starts.
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