Best areas in Dublin 3/5 for budget of €500k?

brisan wrote: »

Do the links not work ?
On a phone and using the Daft mobile app
I’ll post on a PC later

They did!! I'm not taking the piss, they ARE better value. You proved me wrong!

grahamor wrote: »

Been here 5 years, it's a great estate

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/12-st-brigids-close-killester-dublin-5/4459853

I remember when that was all fields! We used to build fires in there.

brisan wrote: »

Houses and apartments going up in St Marys Convent across the road
Neighbours not in the least bit happy

Yes my friend's ma lives in the one big house beside the entrance, I think they got some money for disruption/land.
Are they converting the old convent into apartments? Creepy!

Brisan's posts are very interesting, the difference is amazing on either side of the Malahide roundabout.

From St. Brigids road to the Howth road compared a few metres away on Mask Road. Two different worlds, but that's Dublin for you.

Brookwood posh houses lol, I didn't realise I was posh.
I always wanted a house in Abbeyfield, it's like being in rural Ireland but you're so close to the city. It's an unusual estate, I can't think of any others like it.

https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-24-rosemount-avenue-artane-co-dublin/2601699


https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/bungalow-highfield-mornington-park-malahide-road-artane-co-dublin/2589201

This at a push ,although its on a main road with apartments at the back
Its in the middle of Raheny and you can literally throw a small stone in to St Annes Park

https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-14-main-street-raheny-co-dublin/1525881

Sweet.Science wrote: »

Not offended . I do know the area though . I'm just genuinely curious what people think is the huge difference . What they actually think happens in places like mask ave haha .

I'd hate to see opinions of actual bad places like where I grew up

I don't think anything different will happen to me in Mask avenue compared to Brigits road area. It's just the small differences, a slightly more mature feel, older trees in the green spaces, different style housing, less of a grid style plan. Nothing major. Just two different areas very close to each other.

stampydmonkey wrote: »

What's harmonstown like? Seems grand to me...

John_Rambo wrote: »

Harmonstown.

Excellent location close to the coast and the city. Somewhat hidden and ignored with a Dart station.

^^ my quote from 2017!! Still waiting for the Harmo boom!!

cisk wrote: »

Spent a good bit of time around Mask, McAuley park, Brookwood as a teen in the 00s. All very quiet areas then and I’d say even quieter now.

Back over towards Raheny some shocking asking prices for St Anne’s estate. €425k asking for this house that looks like it hasn’t had a lick of paint or maintenance since it was built by Dublin corporation back in the 50s. Granted it has a larger plot due to end of terrace location.

https://www.daft.ie/13147252

This augments Brisan's post about half a million not getting a turnkey 3 bed in d5 without major work. The potential for that house is amazing in fairness, I live close by and any of the recent purchases are being renovated to a great spec by young people with (obviously) great jobs. They've new cars and they're savvy, smart people that don't have a problem avoiding the D3 Clontarf address!

The village in Raheny is evolving nicely, Bread Naturally bakery & Butler pantry convivial and friendly queues every Saturday morning.

stampydmonkey wrote: »

1st one was at 535 a few weeks ago when we viewed it.
3rd one has a site behind it with planning for apartments as far as I know. Access road will be to the rhs. Has been up for months.

We're looking in these areas and everyone's posts are really helpful. We are constantly reframing the goal posts, what we thought was attainable is changing every day. House on rosemount 111 I think was up for 460 ish went sale agreed for 496k. Crazy money for that in the non Dublin world but unfortunately thats the market. Its actually scary.

https://www.auctioneera.ie/property/111-rosemount-avenue-artane-dublin-d05y9f7

What's harmonstown like? Seems grand to me...

Harmonstown is a great area
Little or no anti social behaviour
Every amenity on your doorstep

cisk wrote: »

Spent a good bit of time around Mask, McAuley park, Brookwood as a teen in the 00s. All very quiet areas then and I’d say even quieter now.

Back over towards Raheny some shocking asking prices for St Anne’s estate. €425k asking for this house that looks like it hasn’t had a lick of paint or maintenance since it was built by Dublin corporation back in the 50s. Granted it has a larger plot due to end of terrace location.

https://www.daft.ie/13147252

Not sure but you may be able to build a 3 bed 100sq mt A rated house in the garden as most have done around there .
The road facing the tennis courts is a prime example
That may explain the price
You could certainly put a hell of an extension to the side and rear

ixoy wrote: »

I pass this frequently on my evening walks (I live nearby) - it's a nice build. I tend to loop around Abbeyfield where I'd have loved a place but there was nothing at the time.
Seeing as you're in the Demesne, I've definitely passed your house a load of times, whichever one it is *waves*!

Houses rarely come up in middle third -Demense
Most of the time its children of the owner who move in when it becomes available
i only got mine because the owner was going to extend and modernise it to sell on
I knew the builder he got and he tipped me off
The builder said the owner was looking for 50k profit and hoping for no over run on the building costs
I paid the original valuation which he had in writing plus the 50k plus the builders 20k deposit
Then changed the plans and got a lot of the internal work done myself
Builder just extended and left the shell
I know I overpaid but we were buying our 4th and hopefully final home an an area we always wanted
Kids still laugh that we have an ensuite living room downstairs with built in wardrobes ( its my den for watching sport at the moment )
It will become a bedroom when stairs become a struggle
Handy if one of us have to self isolate but that was never in our original plans
As I said houses do not come up that often in the area

John_Rambo wrote: »

Yeah, it's a monster road, but as church activities decline the side of the road with the chipper is becoming the heart. The Manhattan is a bit isolated across there.

Still can't believe Windsor Nissan haven't sold and moved to Airside or somewhere off the M50.

I buy my cars off Windsor Raheny
I buy new every 10 years (low mileage driver )and my wife every 5 years
Talking to the salesman they have a lot of local customers for sales and especially services,mainly older clients that can drop car off ,walk home and walk back to collect them.or in many cases the garage will drop them home and drop the car back to them
They would probably lose the vast majority of this business if they left the area

‘monster road/motorway’ ? are people delusional? At that church and all along from Howth through main street Raheny and on down to Fairview is a tree lined one lane road with partial bus/bicycle lane that has not widened since they built it in the 1950’s & called the Howth Road. exasperated.

op seems to have entirely dissappeared.

WhenPigsCry wrote: »

I wouldn't count on that because the seller would surely have sought planning and then sold it as a house plus site with planning, or sold the site separately. Perhaps they tried and were refused.

Don't think the price is too high personally.

Yeah I agree it may not be viable to build another house along side the existing house. However, it's still a site for one very large house you could build if you have the cash.