Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

AlmightyCushion · 01-07-2021 12:32am

The first three words of the estate agent spiel on the ad 'An absolute gem!'. I feel sorry for that fella's girlfriend when they get engaged. It'll probably be a lump of dog shít on the ring.

humberklog · 01-07-2021 12:50am

Nothing like falling asleep to the gentle patter of rain on...checks notes...Perspex roof?

lintdrummer · 01-07-2021 1:17am

humberklog wrote: »

Nothing like falling asleep to the gentle patter of rain on...checks notes...Perspex roof?

Forget the rain, imagine the sun beating in on Summer mornings waking you up at half 4. You'd need a four poster bed covered in black out blinds to sleep in there!

PommieBast · 01-07-2021 3:49am

L1011 wrote: »

Someone trying to get away very, very quickly?

Ian Usher style?

Mollyb60 · 01-07-2021 8:54am

"will particularly appeal to those who are location driven" - Yeah coz that's the only good thing the house has going for it! Christ on a bike you'd freeze to death in that "bedroom" in the winter.

BattleCorp · 01-07-2021 9:03am

lintdrummer wrote: »

Forget the rain, imagine the sun beating in on Summer mornings waking you up at half 4. You'd need a four poster bed covered in black out blinds to sleep in there!

T'wud be the Winter that would more concern me with that kind of roof.

looksee · 01-07-2021 9:10am

How much longer are agents going to mess about with those ridiculous cameras that supposedly make places look enormous? Once your eye has adjusted to it its obvious how small places are by the degree of distortion. Like the kitchen in the windowless house.

edit, yes, sorry, lenses, not cameras.

01-07-2021 9:23am

looksee wrote: »

How much longer are agents going to mess about with those ridiculous cameras that supposedly make places look enormous? Once your eye has adjusted to it its obvious how small places are by the degree of distortion. Like the kitchen in the windowless house.

They don't always need to use the fisheye lens,

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Kintarō Hattori · 01-07-2021 9:49am

Deleted User wrote: »

Bare plywood kitchen is tacky enough (thank you Dermot Bannon) but it looks like whoever did it managed to take any cosyness out of it whatsoever.

What made me want to post it here was the bathroom, though... (pic 8). You have to walk through the shower to get to the toilet..?

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-6-windmill-road-drogheda-co-louth/3431805

The asking is also €87k higher than this, 3 doors down in the same terrace..

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/bungalow-3-windmill-road-drogheda-co-louth/2756289

I have been following Drogheda property for a long time, and I can't see a butchered house on that road selling for 225k, current madness or not.

EDIT: Also, first bedroom only has the door in and out.. is that a fire safety thing? or is that allowed? I always thought bedrooms had to have a window big enough to get out of? or am I mistaken? (the bedroom is in the video if you scroll down the page).

In fairness now I think that's quite nice. Yes it's not cosy as such but it's clean and modern. I've no idea about the price of property in Drogheda but overall that's a nice update of an old house.

KevRossi · 01-07-2021 10:42am

In the house in Portobello, the bedroom is the Mezzanine. The 'lean-to' is a cover over what was the yard with a patio door on it, I doubt it's meant to be any kind of room. It's meant as a sun room, but it should have at least a double glazed ceiling with blinds on it for it to be workable. Handy for drying clothes and sitting there on a cold, sunny day but unusable as a standard room. It's an unfinished house, just patched up to look half-decent. Lack of central heating would be my worry. Spiral staircase doesn't conform to regs AFAIK if you want to rent it out, but I could be wrong. You need €50K to finish that off properly.

I'm very sure that house is owned by a friend of a friend. If it is, he's a hipster twat who is endlessly tweeting about the HSE and the housing crisis. The irony in him flogging that, but as I said to other people, we'd all sell at €100K above asking if the market was preparing to pay that. I'll text a couple of people this evening to see if it's him, but he definitely lives in one of those cottages.

retalivity · 01-07-2021 10:54am

Those houses on Harty place are some of the smallest in Dublin, I remember seeing one a few years ago there for €100k and about 30sqm
€275k for 46sqm, which appears to include an unfinished mezzanine and a covered yard is disgraceful

LaChatteGitane · 01-07-2021 10:59am

I love these types of cottages, but I would reconfigure the whole place if I were to live in it. In that case the asking price is a bit steep.
The rooms are tiny and it would benefit from open plan living, except the bedroom and bathroom (obviously).

I wondered if that is an RSJ sticking out into the garden area ? When you look back to the house from the garden on the LHS ?

2ndcoming · 01-07-2021 11:17am

It's hipster central around there. Few last remaining oul local spinsters and bachelors must get a land seeing these hairy yokes with holes in their ears walking around the place.

KevRossi · 01-07-2021 12:29pm

For €215,000 you can have this 2-bed with loads of space for expansion. About 15 mins from Sligo town centre by car, or less than 40 by bike. But the location.... I know it well from cycling out there and it's incredible, pics on Strret View don't do it justice as it's a bit cloudy and overcast. Build a small platform on the lakeshore to swim from and you're good to go.

Streetview - turn around for the house. https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3381857,-8.4060944,3a,75y,124.42h,82.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxgBydOc7va0XWcqScDNv8A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/glencar-north-sligo-sligo/4346633

01-07-2021 12:40pm

Who'd live in a house like this?

KevRossi wrote: »

loads of space for expansion... it's incredible.. Steet View don't do it justice

Sounds horrible, alright.

LaChatteGitane · 01-07-2021 12:41pm

2ndcoming wrote: »

It's hipster central around there. Few last remaining oul local spinsters and bachelors must get a land seeing these hairy yokes with holes in their ears walking around the place.

Hipsters or no. What counts is that these cottages don't fall into a state of disrepair and are being cared for well.

BattleCorp · 01-07-2021 12:49pm

KevRossi wrote: »

For €215,000 you can have this 2-bed with loads of space for expansion. About 15 mins from Sligo town centre by car, or less than 40 by bike. But the location.... I know it well from cycling out there and it's incredible, pics on Strret View don't do it justice as it's a bit cloudy and overcast. Build a small platform on the lakeshore to swim from and you're good to go.

Might be problematic to build a small swimming platform on land you don't own. But yeah, it's a lovely setting and the cottage looks nice enough on the inside.

01-07-2021 12:49pm

BattleCorp wrote: »

There's an awful lot of work needed on the cheaper house and you wouldn't likely have any change out of €87k if you went about doing the work.

I'd say if you tried to copy the other house, then you'd use 87k up handy enough.

But if you owned the cheaper house and decided to plunge 87k into it, I reckon you'd end up with a much nicer end result, in my opinion.

2ndcoming · 01-07-2021 1:25pm

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

Hipsters or no. What counts is that these cottages don't fall into a state of disrepair and are being cared for well.

For the most part they don't fall into a state of disrepair because chancers know they can build a half shed off the back, give them a bit of a tidy up and ask 275k for them.

There's plenty that are in absolute disrepair around the city I'm sure lots of young people would like a chance at reviving. They'll prob be sold for cash to Paddy the plasterer and appear here in a couple years time, with half built sheds off the back of them for 275k. Or more.

LaChatteGitane · 01-07-2021 1:37pm

2ndcoming wrote: »

For the most part they don't fall into a state of disrepair because chancers know they can build a half shed off the back, give them a bit of a tidy up and ask 275k for them.

There's plenty that are in absolute disrepair around the city I'm sure lots of young people would like a chance at reviving. They'll prob be sold for cash to Paddy the plasterer and appear here in a couple years time, with half built sheds off the back of them for 275k. Or more.

So, not hipsters then.

Muahahaha · 01-07-2021 1:40pm

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

In fairness now I think that's quite nice. Yes it's not cosy as such but it's clean and modern. I've no idea about the price of property in Drogheda but overall that's a nice update of an old house.

According to a report out last week Drogheda house prices are surging at the moment, they claim it has got the fastest house price inflation in the country

Ireland has returned to Celtic Tiger era house price inflation, with average home prices rising by over 1pc a month or more across the country since the end of March.

Selling prices for three-bedroom semi-detached homes have risen more than 4pc over the past three months nationwide, with areas such as Drogheda and Limerick recording double-digit increases in the same period, according to new data released today by the Irish Independent REA Average House Price Index.
The survey also shows house prices in Dublin are surging by €1,500 a week.

The country’s biggest quarterly rise came in Drogheda where demand caused prices to increase by €30,000 to €250,000 in 12 weeks – a rise of 13.5pc in the quarter and 19pc annually.

Its a good job of modernising a small space. Did anyone watch the video though? The estate agent did a single take for a 6+ minute long video and it was all going great until the last minute or so. She was out in the back garden and described it as "very quiet" but in the background you can clearly hear the sirens of an ambulance. Living there you would hear them constantly as its only a few hundred metres from Lourdes hospital which covers the entire north east area up to Monaghan and Cavan. Outside of Dublin & Cork it is one of the countries busiest hospitals so regular sirens in that area are pretty much the norm every day. The agent would have known that but it didnt stop her describing the garden as "very quiet" even when the evidence in her own video was showing the opposite.
It starts at 5.30 and by the time the video finishes at 6.20 the ambulance is getting closer to the house so it gets louder
https://www.realestatealliance.ie/6-windmill-road-drogheda-louth/700184/tour

KevRossi · 01-07-2021 1:52pm

€1,050 per month for 1.5 rooms in a house share with the landlady and her daughter. In Swords, the metropolis of North Dublin [sic]. The landlady has spared no expense here, having purchased...

a brand new single bed for your room of good quality with top quality interior for your room

What more could you want for €12,600 per annum.

https://rentberry.com/ie/apartments/2092938-one-br-swords-swords-village-ed-l-ie?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcfz6fPB8QIVkVAVCB2WHQGpEAEYASABEgLR3_D_BwE

josip · 01-07-2021 1:58pm

KevRossi wrote: »

€1,050 per month for 1.5 rooms in a house share with the landlady and her daughter. In Swords, the metropolis of North Dublin [sic]. The landlady has spared no expense here, having purchased...

What more could you want for €12,600 per annum.

https://rentberry.com/ie/apartments/2092938-one-br-swords-swords-village-ed-l-ie?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcfz6fPB8QIVkVAVCB2WHQGpEAEYASABEgLR3_D_BwE

I'd expect both mother and daughter to be included for that price.

TheValeyard · 01-07-2021 1:58pm

KevRossi wrote: »

€1,050 per month for 1.5 rooms in a house share with the landlady and her daughter. In Swords, the metropolis of North Dublin [sic]. The landlady has spared no expense here, having purchased...

What more could you want for €12,600 per annum.

https://rentberry.com/ie/apartments/2092938-one-br-swords-swords-village-ed-l-ie?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcfz6fPB8QIVkVAVCB2WHQGpEAEYASABEgLR3_D_BwE

And no actual picture of the room?

looksee · 01-07-2021 2:02pm

There's a picture of a picture, and another one of a bunch of flowers, its a quality gaff.

TimHorton · 01-07-2021 2:04pm

BattleCorp wrote: »

Might be problematic to build a small swimming platform on land you don't own. But yeah, it's a lovely setting and the cottage looks nice enough on the inside.

I know in Lough Ree (Roscommon CoCo) even if you do own the Land backing to the lake you are not allowed to build anything on or near the water.

Muahahaha · 01-07-2021 2:05pm

Dont forget too

We have the famous pavilion shopping mall 10 mins from our home

And

We also have small pomeranian friendly dog, the best behaved that makes no noise and great with people

Pomeranians are known as a breed that are both snappy and yappy, if a pin drops they'll go into a fit of barking and they get nervous with strangers and are liable to bite them. No way would I pay money to live with one and I love dogs.

retalivity · 01-07-2021 2:08pm

KevRossi wrote: »

€1,050 per month for 1.5 rooms in a house share with the landlady and her daughter. In Swords, the metropolis of North Dublin [sic]. The landlady has spared no expense here, having purchased...

What more could you want for €12,600 per annum.

https://rentberry.com/ie/apartments/2092938-one-br-swords-swords-village-ed-l-ie?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcfz6fPB8QIVkVAVCB2WHQGpEAEYASABEgLR3_D_BwE

I'm just surprised she is not charging €1,166pm to maximise the free tax relief under the rent a room scheme.

KevRossi · 01-07-2021 2:24pm

retalivity wrote: »

I'm just surprised she is not charging €1,166pm to maximise the free tax relief under the rent a room scheme.

I've no doubt she'll pull €100 a month for various bills to max out the €14k.

BattleCorp · 01-07-2021 2:28pm

josip wrote: »

I'd expect both mother and daughter to be included for that price.

I'd want to see a pic of the mother and daughter before I'd commit to that deal.

AlmightyCushion · 01-07-2021 2:34pm

KevRossi wrote: »

€1,050 per month for 1.5 rooms in a house share with the landlady and her daughter. In Swords, the metropolis of North Dublin [sic]. The landlady has spared no expense here, having purchased...

What more could you want for €12,600 per annum.

https://rentberry.com/ie/apartments/2092938-one-br-swords-swords-village-ed-l-ie?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcfz6fPB8QIVkVAVCB2WHQGpEAEYASABEgLR3_D_BwE

I assumed that bit in bold was you adding your own level of sarcasm to it. I can't believe they actually put that in the ad. It really is like a parody.

01-07-2021 2:47pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

It's all fine and dandy when you have a family at home but then they fly the nest and you and your OH (if you have held onto them too!) suddenly have all this unnecessary extra room to rattle around in.
I see it with my home place too.

Houses like that need staff and a large family staying there. Extended even.

01-07-2021 3:03pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

According to a report out last week Drogheda house prices are surging at the moment, they claim it has got the fastest house price inflation in the country

Yeah I heard that, alright. Prices are booming here, but i think that statistic has a lot to do with houses asking prices not being adjusted at all.

Houses that are selling for 200k are still being listed at 170k for example.

It starts at 5.30 and by the time the video finishes at 6.20 the ambulance is getting closer to the house so it gets louder
https://www.realestatealliance.ie/6-windmill-road-drogheda-louth/700184/tour

The upside (if you consider it one) would be that the sirens are generally only during the day. At night, you'd rarely hear them, as people don't have accidents at night time.

(seriously, though, at night time the junctions off that road, to the hospital, are generally quiet, so nee-naws aren't used to attract attention. That house is, to be fair, on the "good side" of the road, in that it's away from the hospital itself and the junctions the ambulances go through.

A potentially more annoying concern would be the noise (cheering/etc) from sports at Droghed United, and the hassle those games bring in terms of traffic and litter. However, again, you're at the opposite end of the road, which is good. A bad thing, though, is the road is a one-way road, and you're at the start of it. It can be congested a lot, especially with people going to work in the hospital, and unless you park elsewhere, you've to travel the full road before you can go anywhere else.

There's also busy schools across in the area too (bothar brugha) that would add to the congestion. It can be a very congested area. I wouldn't live there personally (the noise of traffic would annoy me) and when you take into consideration what is available for the same asking price in Drogheda, i don't see this selling at that price, although I am very open to correction on that (and naturally, for the seller's sake, I hope they do well out of it).

A 'real' budget (ie; sale agreed price, rather than asking price) of 250k in Drogheda, should still be plenty to get you a 3 bed terraced with a drive way in good condition in Drogheda, not far from the town but outside the centre, to avoid traffic on your door step.

01-07-2021 3:07pm

Regarding the swords one, why would you highlight a single bed? Any adult I know, even sleeping on their own, uses a double bed?

Is "single bed" code for "no riding"? Or is the room just tiny, i wonder (it doesn't seem to be pictured?)

2ndcoming · 01-07-2021 3:20pm

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

So, not hipsters then.

No, the hipsters are mostly the ones willing to pay the exorbitant rents to live in a hovel because it's in a cool area. The owners / sellers are the chancers.

The Mighty Quinn · 01-07-2021 3:41pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Regarding the swords one, why would you highlight a single bed? Any adult I know, even sleeping on their own, uses a double bed?

Is "single bed" code for "no riding"? Or is the room just tiny, i wonder (it doesn't seem to be pictured?)

Oh you can be absolutely 100% certain it is not a double bed.

Also, a single bed is perfectly good for riding

it's the sleeping together part afterwards that's difficult :cool:

punisher5112 · 01-07-2021 4:02pm

https://www.realestate...da-louth/700184/tour

On that Drogheda one I'd be more concerned about getting the bins in and out with all those steps etc....

On the swords one it's actually a really sad time to show us all what many have to endure by paying through the nose to live.... A house share with a mother and daughter and a dog, they will most likely not tolerate you using the sitting room etc and probably guessing here but restrict kitchen times and also look for you to be out mostly.....

Wabbit Ears · 01-07-2021 4:48pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

On the swords one it's actually a really sad time to show us all what many have to endure by paying through the nose to live.... A house share with a mother and daughter and a dog, they will most likely not tolerate you using the sitting room etc and probably guessing here but restrict kitchen times and also look for you to be out mostly.....

Plus, being owner-occupied, you're paying above house share rates without any of the protections of a tenancy.

Larsso30 · 01-07-2021 5:19pm

KevRossi wrote: »

For €215,000 you can have this 2-bed with loads of space for expansion. About 15 mins from Sligo town centre by car, or less than 40 by bike. But the location.... I know it well from cycling out there and it's incredible, pics on Strret View don't do it justice as it's a bit cloudy and overcast. Build a small platform on the lakeshore to swim from and you're good to go.

Streetview - turn around for the house. https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3381857,-8.4060944,3a,75y,124.42h,82.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxgBydOc7va0XWcqScDNv8A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/glencar-north-sligo-sligo/4346633

This is stunning scenery. House is impressive too.

Is the one next to it abandoned?

Larsso30 · 01-07-2021 5:22pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

According to a report out last week Drogheda house prices are surging at the moment, they claim it has got the fastest house price inflation in the country

Its a good job of modernising a small space. Did anyone watch the video though? The estate agent did a single take for a 6+ minute long video and it was all going great until the last minute or so. She was out in the back garden and described it as "very quiet" but in the background you can clearly hear the sirens of an ambulance. Living there you would hear them constantly as its only a few hundred metres from Lourdes hospital which covers the entire north east area up to Monaghan and Cavan. Outside of Dublin & Cork it is one of the countries busiest hospitals so regular sirens in that area are pretty much the norm every day. The agent would have known that but it didnt stop her describing the garden as "very quiet" even when the evidence in her own video was showing the opposite.
It starts at 5.30 and by the time the video finishes at 6.20 the ambulance is getting closer to the house so it gets louder
https://www.realestatealliance.ie/6-windmill-road-drogheda-louth/700184/tour

I've lived there and for the life of me I cannot understand why the prices are surging! (apologies to anyone from drogheda!)

Gregor Samsa · 01-07-2021 5:51pm

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

Also, a single bed is perfectly good for riding it's the sleeping together part afterwards that's difficult :cool:

You prefect the spooning after a bit, and a little later the climbing-over-your-sleeping-partner-to-go-to-the-bathdoom-without-waking-them.

It's the disapproving glares from your rent-mammy, her adult daughter and the yappy house dog that are the real killers.

01-07-2021 6:18pm

Larsso30 wrote: »

I've lived there and for the life of me I cannot understand why the prices are surging! (apologies to anyone from drogheda!)

Prices are surging because you left! :P

Seriously though, I live there, and I do think EA's are just using "old" asking prices or artificially lowering them a tad to reel people in. I've a good idea of what houses are going for in the area around me, and all the asking prices are 20-30k lower (on houses underneath a 250k price bracket - can't comment above that as I'm not really looking at those).

For example, there's an estate near me, where nothing has sold for less than 195k recently, but houses coming up in that area are still advertised around 170k.

Whereas if they advertised them at 190k, and they went for 195k, the same prices would be achieved, but the stats of houses selling 'way over' their asking wouldn't be as blown out of proportion.

That said, things seem calmer now than they once did - in Feb-Apr things were going stupidly high

EDIT: Although that is due to supply id say, as there wasn't much in the way of new builds at the time, and second hand had dried up a bit. According to Daft there's 121 properties for sale at the moment in Drogheda, in March that was as low as 86.

L1011 · 01-07-2021 8:05pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

A very unusual property, an old train station, including the signal cabin and goods sheds.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/ballinlough-station-ballinlough-co-roscommon/4511817

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

01-07-2021 9:36pm

L1011 wrote: »

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

It'll just end up at auction and someone will buy it. People that lose property get very sentimental about it, and become tough guys, but more often than not end up back in their box when the real 'tough guys' show up.

Muahahaha · 01-07-2021 9:56pm

L1011 wrote: »

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

Does that happen quite a bit to land around old disused railways? Thought I read on here before about farmers helping themselves to CIE land along a disused railway line

James 007 · 01-07-2021 10:22pm

TheValeyard wrote: »

And no actual picture of the room?

The bedroom is out the back, definately only a single bed in it:rolleyes:
https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/365565694730836387/

josip · 01-07-2021 10:47pm

L1011 wrote: »

Mentioned this to my brother, he had actually looked at it before... there's a big sign up at the actual location with a rant of "this land is not actually for sale..." or similar on it, so you'd basically be buying yourself in to a real life version of The Field.

And if things end up the same way as the Field, you can be buried just across the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qb58KZJSQiMBBNQK8

For Forks Sake · 01-07-2021 11:03pm

josip wrote: »

And if things end up the same way as the Field, you can be buried just across the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qb58KZJSQiMBBNQK8

Be less labour intensive to throw the corpse in the lake beside it.

KevRossi · 01-07-2021 11:43pm

€199,000 for this. It's about €70,000 cheaper than most of the similar houses in the area and it's been for sale for months. Needs a good clean out, new floors, new wallpaper/paint, probably new windows and a boiler. No pics of bathroom so probably needs to be refurbished along with the kitchen. Probably good value if you're not too fussy. If you're handy with DIY and you laid into it for 4 weeks you'd get the important bits done and you could do the rest over few months, saving a fair few quid on similar houses. With the extension at the back it's easy to make a 3 bed (one an ensuite) out of it later on.

I don't know how good or bad that end of the road is, or how much anti-social behaviour goes on in the park opposite it, but you're 25 mins walk from the Phoenix Park, less than 10 on a bike. Chapelizod, Inchicore and Kilmainham are very near and Ballyer has most shops like Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, etc. There's a few shops 2 mins walk down the road as well.

Bus outside the door (literally) goes every 10 mins in the morning and evening, every 15 outside of that.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/167-decies-road-ballyfermot-dublin-10/4477851

L1011 · 02-07-2021 8:00am

Muahahaha wrote: »

Does that happen quite a bit to land around old disused railways? Thought I read on here before about farmers helping themselves to CIE land along a disused railway line

Yes. Very common to move a fence to the other side of a closed line or put an unofficial crossing in etc.

This is a closed station on an active line though so I'd hope it was sold off properly

Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

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