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Property Ladder 2020, New Home Owners

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  • #52
    brisan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    John Hutton wrote: »
    Have a budget of about 160 to 200k. (Will be buying by myself) Work in Dublin city centre, obviously won't get something there, so I'll be looking further north on the train line, Drogheda probably, which is pushing my "hour from work" rule. But what can I do?

    Will probably end up with a three bed semi, ex council built house. Will be some challenges here, crap BER rating among them but at least will be a solidly built house! Hoping for one with a decent garden where I can put up a decent shed as a little workshop. Don't mind a bit of a "doer upper" where it needs modernisation. It needs to be livable though, where I can do a room at a time while I live there.

    Have my deposit saved, just going to wait and see what happens with the market, won't be buying until next year.

    Lucky in that I'm only paying 400 a a month in rent at the minute and have a job which will not be affected by covid.

    https://www.daft.ie/dublin-city/property-for-sale/dublin-5,dublin-city-centre,north-co-dublin,north-dublin-city/?s%5Bmxp%5D=200000&s%5Bmnb%5D=2&s%5Badvanced%5D=1&searchSource=sale
    Over 90 properties with at least 2 beds in the Dublin area in your budget


  • #53
    John Hutton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭John Hutton


    brisan wrote: »
    https://www.daft.ie/dublin-city/property-for-sale/dublin-5,dublin-city-centre,north-co-dublin,north-dublin-city/?s%5Bmxp%5D=200000&s%5Bmnb%5D=2&s%5Badvanced%5D=1&searchSource=sale
    Over 90 properties with at least 2 beds in the Dublin area in your budget
    If you look at houses the majority are in Balbriggan (which is little different to Drogheda in terms of train commuter times - the Belfast Dublin express) or in very bad areas in Dublin.


    The only decent house outside of the above is one for 190 in Rush (which would be great!), which suffers from pyrite!


  • #54
    Ticking and Bashing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭Ticking and Bashing


    Are people going for house viewings these days and how are they going for you? the online / virtual viewings are actually quite good and very useful.

    There were a few properties I was interested in in Kildare, which had some extensions / modifications etc. Out of curiosity I checked the online county councils planning sections only to find that the planning permissions weren't initially obtained, and planning permission retainers / retention now being applied for! I can imagine the solicitors would check this anyways!

    Still trying to get my head around various pricing strategies used. Seeing lots of upward and downward movements on property price register v's asking price!


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