4 of a kind… North Docklands Apartments | Looking south from on high
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, April 24th 2016 Perched high on the eighth floor of Block K in Castleforbes Square, is a two-bedroom apartment boasting views worthy of any master or mistress of the universe. It sits in a well-managed development at the Point Village end of the north quays in the heart of the Dublin…
Penthouse with your own pool? Spencer Dock luxury apartments go to market
The Sunday Independent, April 24th 2016 It is not often that describing something as a vestige of the bygone Celtic Tiger era would be seen as a positive, but in the case of the penthouses at Spencer Dock, which went on the market for the first time this week, this is the case. Originally built by…
Stunning Spencer Dock penthouses still have it, by Tina-Marie O’Neill
The Sunday Business Post, Sunday, April 24th 2016 “Penthouses priced from €900,000 to €1.45 million Five-star duplex penthouses with heated rooftop pools, floor-to-ceiling windows, balconies, terraces, remote-controlled curtains, luxurious bathrooms, limestone and solid oak floors and designer kitchens . . . all in all, it sounds like a pad one would expect to find in…
Nice moves | An urban cottage in Rathmines revamp
The Sunday Times, April 24th 2016 Dublin 6, €380,000 The current owner of No 53 Gulistan Cottages in Rathmines has transformed the small, dark two-bedroom Victorian cottage into an altogether brighter space. She extended the bathroom, putting in a roof window, and opened up the eaves in the main living/kitchen space, further brightening up the…
4 of a kind… North Docklands Apartments | Riverstown Residence
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, April 22nd 2016 This top-floor, south-facing, two-bedroom apartment with parking is located in the heart of the Dublin Docklands, in Riverstown House, Spencer Dock, which was designed by award-winning architects, Scott Tallon Walker. The apartment’s features include a contemporary fully equipped kitchen, luxurious bathrooms and a generous south-facing terrace, plus 24-hour…
4 of a kind…Apartments in the South Docklands
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, April 17th 2016 “Apartment 16 is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom, fifth-floor apartment in the upmarket Gallery Quay development. There is 84sqm of dual-aspect living space – on one side the apartment looks out over the internal courtyard and over the other due south, towards Pearse Street and Dublin’s southside. Agent Owen Reilly describes…
BLOG Observations on Dublin residential in Q1 2016
The residential property story of the first quarter of 2016 (Q1 2016) has played out against global economic uncertainty that unsettled an otherwise positive local economic story, the continuing housing shortage and an inconclusive General Election that put paid for the time being to any potentially motivating government intervention. Not surprisingly, market reports on the first quarter document low stock and rising prices.
Rising tide lifting all boats in Dublin docklands, by Aoife Valentine
The Irish Times, Thursday, April 7th 2016 The story of the reinvention of the of 1,285-acre area of Dublin’s docklands has been well documented: since Google moved into Barrow Street in 2004, followed by a host of technology companies, and legal and financial companies, the downturn hit hard, but gradually the area rose from the…
Living the high life in the docklands, by Mark Keenan
The Irish Independent, Friday, April 1st 2016 The two-bedroom apartment has elevated views directly overlooking a sweep of the River Liffey from its location on the waterfront and these stretch for miles to the Dublin Mountains beyond. Only in the docklands, where accommodation can stretch to 16 floors above the street, are proper high…
BLOG A penthouse for all… the opportunity for all…
Blog post by Maya Healy and Owen Reilly, March 4th 2016 Dublin City Council’s Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) planning scheme focused on the Grand Canal Dock and North Lotts areas provides for the development of 2,600 additional residential units and it will transform the Docklands. The next wave of development will be required to live…