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  • #32
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,963 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Teddy Daniels wrote: »
    Do you not have a ongoing fight with your neighbours ?

    I do but that's not area specific, that could happen anywhere. Everyone else is positively lovely, kids playing on the streets, neighbours out talking to one another.


  • #33
    jim-mcdee
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭jim-mcdee


    elizunia87 wrote: »
    Thank you.
    Is there any area of Balbriggan that is better to avoid?

    Yes. Avoid Legoland.


  • #34
    shesty
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty


    Swords?Lusk?Rush?Donabate?(although that mightn't suit your budget too much)All good transport links, bus and train.Closer than balbriggan.Nice towns, nice beaches, plenty of life in them.


  • #35
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    You are not going to get (1) a house (2) in a nice area (3) near to the city centre, for 250k.

    Possibly none of those things for that money.

    So decide what is most important, and maybe look online yourself.

    Otherwise this is a giant waste of time.


  • #36
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Lumen wrote: »
    You are not going to get (1) a house (2) in a nice area (3) near to the city centre, for 250k.

    Possibly none of those things for that money.

    So decide what is most important, and maybe look online yourself.

    Otherwise this is a giant waste of time.

    This


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  • #37
    afkasurfjunkie
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭afkasurfjunkie


    Please explain how you cannot afford a car but expect to be mortgage free in 10 years if you buy in the midlands for €150,000!


  • #38
    voluntary
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    afkasurfjunkie wrote: »
    Please explain how you cannot afford a car but expect to be mortgage free in 10 years if you buy in the midlands for €150,000!

    Annual railway ticket.


  • #39
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    afkasurfjunkie wrote: »
    Please explain how you cannot afford a car but expect to be mortgage free in 10 years if you buy in the midlands for €150,000!


    He's not gonna buy a car for starters! :pac:


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    There are houses for 250,000 Euro or less in Dublin 8 & Dublin 12, mostly 2 bed though.
    You should be able to find something OP


  • #41
    elizunia87
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭elizunia87


    I would like to know your opinion on buying the house nice one, in Portlaoise with the price range 120 to 150 k Max, no need for renovation with deposit of 50k.

    Nice quiet with one disadvantage of travelling to work. But then maybe when we Are 50 working part Time, or find the job outside of Dublin.


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  • #42
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Price range 120-150k including the deposit or the deposit on top? If 150 max overall budget you won't be getting anything in walk-in condition in Portlaoise that has 3 bedrooms.


  • #43
    elizunia87
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭elizunia87


    For me these houses are to walk in based on what I see of course

    https://www.daft.ie/laois/houses-for-sale/portlaoise/buttercup-ave-esker-hills-portlaoise-laois-2081327/

    https://www.daft.ie/laois/houses-for-sale/portlaoise/95-st-brigids-place-portlaoise-laois-2089196/ with sauna ?? :)


    A bit extreme but for 120k
    https://www.daft.ie/laois/houses-for-sale/portlaoise/26-lakeglen-portlaoise-laois-2095394/

    We have almost 45k deposit.

    The only problem is commuting to Dublin.


  • #44
    YipeeDee
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭YipeeDee


    elizunia87 wrote: »
    Hi,

    Two months left to start looking for a house to buy.

    You guys say Dublin 1 is dangerous, d15, crumlin, ballyfermot, blanch. Almost all of the one we can afford. The question is where these days is now safe where the kid is stabbed near Dudrum, the eara quite nice and expensive.

    What possibly could happend or is happening that is dangerous. I am really really lost.

    We have 250k budget. I am thinking even we go to Portlaoise, buy the house for 150k and be mortgage free in 10 years max.
    We want to get something asap.

    BTW now we live in Dublin 8, the area not very nice for some of you but in my perception is okey. Yes, there are scums walking and loads of rubish but in general is okey

    Please help
    I grew up in lower Ballyfermot. (The Inchicore end)
    Was very rough in the 80’s, gained a horrible reputation but not like that now.
    I still have friends there and regularly visit.
    I am speaking only about the lower end near Inchicore only.
    The upper end still is fairly dodgy IMO.
    They are ex corporation houses sold off to sitting social tenants.
    In the lower end, many of them are now elderly and passing away, so there’s quite a few for sale.
    It has become quite diverse in the last few years.
    People are buying them because of their proximity to the city centre.
    Next door to one of my friends an Austrian couple and German couple a few doors away.
    It’s relatively quiet these days, grandkids around on Sundays and oldies in the pubs.
    Quite a few funerals as the old neighbours pass away.
    A fair few people let rooms to the students from Ballyfermot College.
    I wouldn’t have a problem living there but, again I grew up there and have seen how it has changed.
    And again, I am only speaking about the lower end (Inichore end)
    Hope this helps.


  • #45
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    elizunia87 wrote: »
    For me these houses are to walk in based on what I see of course

    https://www.daft.ie/laois/houses-for-sale/portlaoise/buttercup-ave-esker-hills-portlaoise-laois-2081327/

    https://www.daft.ie/laois/houses-for-sale/portlaoise/95-st-brigids-place-portlaoise-laois-2089196/ with sauna ?? :)


    A bit extreme but for 120k
    https://www.daft.ie/laois/houses-for-sale/portlaoise/26-lakeglen-portlaoise-laois-2095394/

    We have almost 45k deposit.

    The only problem is commuting to Dublin.

    I looked into Portlaoise 2 years back and got told all 3 estates that you listed here are on the rough side. Don't know if it got better though.


  • #46
    bbaja42
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭bbaja42


    To follow up what OP asked, is there an area where you can buy a 3 bed house, still not too far from city center, without needing a car; but raising a limit from 250 to 350?

    As example, assuming this is a nice neighbourhood, this tells me I still have some hope:
    auctioneera 1e-emmett-court-st-vincent-street-west-inchicore-dublin-d08-p2wd

    3 bed , in what on google maps looks nice area, sold for 326


  • #47
    Nika Bolokov
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nika Bolokov


    I sold a one bed apartment in Dublin 18 and just bought a three bedroom house off Monastery Road in Clondalkin for the same money.

    I have a four minute walk to a Luas stop and 5 bus routes pass the house. The grand canal cycle path even takes me into Baggot Street in 25 mins.

    I grew up in Clondalkin and never had it my head that I would move back for no good reason anyway. Have a look around Clondalkin village and the type of bars and cafes that are opening. You might be surprised.

    Hard to pay over 300k for a 3 bed.

    On another point a friend of mine who's an accountant from Donegal bought a house in Crumlin and is so happy with it hes bought a second.

    I think Dublin is a bit odd in that in London if there were such huge price differentials between places that are beside each other say Crumlin and Harolds Cross , they would vanish in a year but in Ireland they seem to persist.

    You'll get internet warriors who live with Mammy or rent a room throwing all sorts but walk out to places your interested in and have a look. A lot of these places are enormous and need to be seen to be best understood.


  • #48
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 12,999 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    bbaja42 wrote: »
    To follow up what OP asked, is there an area where you can buy a 3 bed house, still not too far from city center, without needing a car; but raising a limit from 250 to 350?

    As example, assuming this is a nice neighbourhood, this tells me I still have some hope:
    auctioneera 1e-emmett-court-st-vincent-street-west-inchicore-dublin-d08-p2wd

    3 bed , in what on google maps looks nice area, sold for 326


    Have a look in D7 maybe?


  • #49
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    If you're willing to put up with the odd character D5 would be an option at 350K you'd be near enough the DART line. It's a working class area - in the proper sense of the term, where people actually work - but I like it.


  • #50
    Nika Bolokov
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nika Bolokov


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    If you're willing to put up with the odd character D5 would be an option at 350K you'd be near enough the DART line. It's a working class area - in the proper sense of the term, where people actually work - but I like it.

    Would second that. Great areas in D5


  • #51
    ste
    Registered Users Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ste


    Check places either side of Collins Avenue, between boundaries of Marino and Artane.
    Eg.
    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/13-elm-mount-heights-beaumont-dublin-9/4342060
    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/108-elm-mount-avenue-beaumont-dublin-9/4307811
    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/5-collins-park-beaumont-dublin-9-do9-e6w7/4274564
    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/70-grace-park-heights-drumcondra-dublin-9-d09-dk83/4337999
    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/420-collins-avenue-whitehall-dublin-9/4343536

    Good luck


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  • #52
    bbaja42
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭bbaja42


    Thnx, I'll check out D7 and D5, and the above links
    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #53
    messrs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    elizunia87 wrote: »
    Thank you.

    We do consider Balbriggan in the "worst" scenario, when we will not be able to get anything close Dublin 8 or 12 ( our first choice). The houses you sent they are gorgeous.
    Is there any area of Balbriggan that is better to avoid?

    Lots of houses in D8 & D12 with the budget you have

    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/1e-emmett-court-st-vincent-street-west-inchicore-dublin-8-inchicore-dublin-8/4298146

    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/159-donnellan-avenue-kilmainham-dublin-8/4342104

    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/18a-camac-park-bluebell-dublin-12/4341280

    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/kildare-road-crumlin-dublin/4310684


  • #54
    bbaja42
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭bbaja42


    Any thoughts on houses in south end of Ballyfermot like
    https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/ballyfermot/225-sarsfield-road-ballyfermot-dublin-2077084/ ?
    What's the neighbourhood like?
    Transport to town looks quite good.


  • #55
    gerardmillrace
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭gerardmillrace


    Advice of someone commuting to Dublin from Portlaoise. Avoid both Esker Hills and St Brigids areas like the plague if not too late. They are both kips. Feral kids wandering around at night time causing hassle. They are dumps. Cheap for a reason


  • #56
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,356 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Asking if an area is safe on an internet forum is going to be all over the place, people with personal grudges against an area which may or may not have a basis in reality, or if the areas is generally considered mixed it might be grand for a male on his own but not so great for a woman on their own( that not discrimination its reality ) They need to check it out themselves.


  • #57
    gerardmillrace
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭gerardmillrace


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Asking if an area is safe on an internet forum is going to be all over the place, people with personal grudges against an area which may or may not have a basis in reality, or if the areas is generally considered mixed it might be grand for a male on his own but not so great for a woman on their own( that not discrimination its reality ) They need to check it out themselves.
    Someone asked an opinion I gave an answer. Both are grounded in reality. Lady Garda beaten black and blue outside one estate. Burnt out house in the estate. Multiple social issues. If you don't want my well grounded view tough. It's a democracy and I am giving the poster an honest answer. Both estates are dives. If I can spare the poster the misfortune of experiencing that for themselves all the better.


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