Ballymore Sea Gardens - Bray

If you are saying that the 2 beds apts were previously only 475k - that is still crazy money to begin with! Inflation or not.

Sorry this should not be justified.

2 bed "houses" with very little storage is not good enough for any young family that plans on having more than one child.

Prices are exorbitant and not a stepping stone.

Indiustry needs serious regulation on standards and minimums etc.

Has anyone else received word on their snagging date?

We are row 57-62, I have been chasing snagging for weeks, the site manager I’m sure is sick of me. He told me on 30th of Sept snagging would be 2-3 weeks time, this week being the 3rd week. Our agent told me start to mid October around about the same time. Our solicitor attempted to get information from their solicitor last week and no response. Anyone on this row have any more recent information? We’re crammed in my mothers house going out of our minds 😂

@GG2023 We are also in row 57 - 62, we have been chasing for a date for snagging for ages also. Our agent told us Ballymore should ring this week with a confirmed date for snagging. But the agent confirmed that the row will be fully completed by end of October, finally! That's great that you got a guide line date. Hopefully we are the same date. We will be chasing tomorrow if we don't hear back from them.

Further Update on snagging - Site Manager messaged me to say we would be called for snagging week of 28th October, agent updated to say snagging taking place first 2 weeks of November, originally I thought there was a disconnect between the info, but it would make sense that the call would be a week earlier than the actual snagging date to align an engineer etc! Just going to keep the pressure on because we’ve have been promised multiple snagging dates since July!

Are you in communication with Ballymore or the Estate Agents about the snagging dates?

@bafled we’re block 57-62, agent called this afternoon saying being called for snagging week of 29th Oct - 3rd Nov, I’ve been dealing with agent and site manager and found the site manager to be more realistic and honest with us , but both seem to be aligned now with information. She mentioned our direct neighbour was also on this afternoon regarding snagging so hopefully with collective pressure we can get this over the line asap! Maybe both rows being done at same time?

I'm also terrace 63-73 (Ballymore refer to this as terrace 10). My agent (Savills) have not been giving much at all in the way of information and more or less pointed me directly to Ballymore so I've been emailing someone in Ballymore's office for updates. Last I got on Oct 11th was that they were working on paperwork for Terrace 8 (I'm guessing this is 57-62) which was supposed to take 2 weeks. After that she was going to be moving on to Terrace 10 with an aim at that time to snag terrace 10 in mid Nov. We all seem to be getting slightly different info 😅.

@Supernaturalxo yep we’re Dillon Marshall also! We’re no 60 so you could be the direct neighbour 😀 out of interest did you happen to get a look in the attic space when viewing, they didn’t allow it at our viewings but said it had been open in previous ones? Just wondering how is there much storage space up there and if it’s floored. At this rate the Christmas decorations will be staying down when we move in!

We were informed that it will be 4-6 weeks more until snagging. It really would need to be before the end of November to have a hope of getting in by Christmas.

I know the ESB and Irish Water are often blamed but it seems to me as well that physical things like walls that have nothing to do with them also are delayed. Perhaps they can’t move on with stuff until they get them to do their bit?

The whole information flow on these things is annoying. I know it happens with all developments seemingly but there is a better way to handle comms rather than have people chasing site foremen around.

I'm starting to get fairly frustrated by the lack of clear updates/timelines. I was talking to both Ballymore and Savills recently and it seems that there is a meeting tomorrow morning to talk about snag dates, hopefully we get some solid info after this.

I'm row 63-73 (terrace 10) and it feels pretty 50/50 on if we'll get keys before Christmas or not - if we don't get a snagging date in the first 2 weeks of Nov I think the odds get pretty low. I've heard the mention of Irish Water and ESB as the reason for delays but I'm starting to think this could be a bit of a scapegoat tactic - got this reason on the last update I heard yet I've seen lights on in my house so clearly ESB isn't the issue 😅.

@idlefingers Row 57-62 is terrace 8 and this is the next to snag. Then 63-73 terrace 10 from what we have heard is snagging next? From the information we received you snag within the completion date they provide and then depending on the snag report move in 2+ weeks later.

Also does anyone know why within the “Homezone” streets that the paving that was included in the planning documents doesn’t appear to be going down?

I know it is typical for developers to promise something and not deliver, trying to see when they deviated from this in their planning.

@Supernaturalxo hi neighbour! Any updates for you this week? I haven’t contacted anyone this week based on the last info we got so hopefully next week we get the snagging call. I’m going to go down there today to take a look from both inside the development and from corke abbey park. I’ve been onto a few snagging companies and they’ve all said they’ve done some houses there already and no major issues everything done to a very high spec, so that’s a positive for us all!

Did anyone get any further information after the snagging meeting mentioned above?