Mick Kinane’s house near Punchestown.
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/eadling-house-punchestown-naas-county-kildare/4798088
Honestly, just stick me in the bungalow and I'd be happy.
There is ALOT I would have to change about the decor in that house. Way overpriced.
a house paid for on the back of horrendous exploitation of animals.. no thanks
I've been in it, beautiful place. A lot of gardening to be keeping on top of.
I think it's hideous and tacky, very new money bordering on traveller chic.
They do things differently in Norwegian adverts. Picture number two, he's having the craic!
https://www.finn.no/realestate/homes/ad.html?finnkode=353870448
I love the short description on this.
"Charming watermill with pigeonnier on its own island with secret gardens and 400 year old oak tree."
€ 869734. I like it😎
The oak tree would sell it to me. I lived in a house with an approx 100 year old oak in front of it, not causing any issues and in no danger of obstructing the rural country road that passed by about 5m away. We were supposed to take down the tree as part of planning permission, but didn't. When we sold it Kilkenny Co.Co. (name and shame) insisted it be felled, one of the last remnants of the oak forest that gave the area its name. Never forgiven them for that, we had to get it removed in order to sell the house.
Near where I live about 20 years ago there was a a main road and a boreen off it and in the centre of the boreen entrance was a large oak tree and the road had a in and out around the tree(hard to explain) but anyway it was a local land mark but in the end roughly 20 years ago the Co.Co chopped it down and you wouldn't even know it was ever there anymore.
OT now.
When you see a mighty old tree in the countryside, it is a sad sight as it is the last of its kind. No other trees anywhere near their age nearby and their saplings browsed away by animals or mowed away. Our hedgerows obliterated by flail mowers if they aren’t dug out completely in the name of ‘neatness’ or easier silage harvesting. When these mighty and ancient trees fall, that is it. Chopped up and carted away. They don’t even get a chance to rot into the ground and nourish it. There’s a few people out there trying to stop the vandalism and prosecute the offenders
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/05/04/like-something-from-a-snuff-film-touring-wildlife-crime-scenes-around-dublin-with-a-parks-ranger/
€80,000 seems like mad money to me.
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/leitrim/news/unfinished-mansion-in-county-leitrim-could-sell-for-just-80000-at-auction/a283636207.html
The estate agent trying to sell that as an unfinished house is madness. It needs to be knocked and redone so its a actually a site with planning - a bad site at that.
This may be one of the ugliest houses I've ever seen.
Very few photos of the outside are shown but the inside looks ok - https://www.wexfordproperty.ie/riverview-house-ballydicken-upper-crossabeg-wexford-wexford/781152
Exterior looks kind of bleak as its all brown - it mightn't look so bad in the summer, when everything is green.
Interior wouldn't be to my taste either.
The exterior would be greatly improved with landscaping, it looks like they sprayed everywhere with weedkiller before putting it up for sale.
The interior is too modern and bland for my taste, but a lot of people will love it.
Looks like a petrol station from the 1940s. Inside is all hard surfaces, the acoustics must be horrible. Dublin asking price too!
I love the interior apart from the shiny tiles downstairs, again 🙄
It's very scorched earth outside, who on earth thought that was a good idea before taking the photos!!
I think its great. The ad is let down by not having any photos at eye level, which would take away the dominance of the flat roofed areas.
If the house was surrounded by well thought-out landscaping it would absolutely shine - an easy win for a new buyer.
Nearly 800k for a flat roof 4 bed house! Good size site but you would have a lot of expense landscaping it, A3 BER passive house - I am to be convinced that passive houses are really the way forward, but presumably its a high spec build. Still, well overpriced for what it is.
Looks like it was part of that wheat field originally, there was no grass sown there so it was probably crawling with weeds.
This place is a pure rip off. Being seeing this with new one off houses for years now, all over the country. Cut a gap into a field, throw up a place with a contemporary finish and charge a fortune for it.
Buying this place you’ll need:
And that’s just off the top of my head. They are charging for this like it is the complete package. It’s an unfinished property in my book.
It looks like it got dropped from a height onto a random patch of ground. A lot of landscaping required which would make a huge improvement on it. Nicer inside than I expected, given the first impression from the outside.
Fences, gates & hedges would be the last thing I would want on that property. Landscaping can be one of the cheapest improvements to your property.
Of course you can spend a small fortune, but equally if you do your research and have some understanding of plants & soil and are prepared to do a bit of effort yourself, its not too difficult to get a result that would make that house pop. Speaking from experience - good design can easily save a fortune on cost.
Agree on your last point on pricing - but thats the bonkers housing market in little auld Ireland
Fences, gates & hedges would be the last thing I would want on that property.
And when one of the local farmers moves a flock of sheep or a few dozen calves from one field to another, what happens? Or some bullocks get out of an adjacent field. Or the local hunt takes a short cut across the field past your house?
but what if they don’t negative nancy 😆
I have lived in three rural houses and it has happened at some stage in every one.
dinner sorted so 👌🏻
Might want to look at the actual site topography & adjacent surroundings of the property in the photos.
Zero chances of that happening.
You'd certainly be a magnet for the tarmac sellers and gutter and driveways cleaner who are giving a discount because they're doing work in the area.
That house needs gates, fences, landscaping and a patio area.
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