Stylish interior, easy commute, by Fran Power
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, October 23rd 2016 Among the many variables that affect the price of a house – location, orientation, off-street parking, access to transport – one of the key factors, as every estate agent will tell you, is décor. When Sarah Hughes and John Healy, vendors of 5 Grangefield in Ballinteer, first saw…
How to solve Ireland’s rent crisis | What one measure would help
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, October 16th 2016 What one measure would help tackle the rent crisis? We asked seven experts in the housing market what solution they would put in place. Here’s what they said: John Leahy, director at irishlandlord.com and author of Renting in Ireland “We are constantly told the solution to the rental…
4 of a kind…On the water – All about the view
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, September 18th 2016 22 Cloncurry House is a light-filled, two-bedroom, two-bathroom 72sqm apartment with a generous corner terrace on the sixth floor of the luxury Spencer Dock development, immediately to the east of the IFSC. The apartment has 10-metre high ceilings, a top-of-the-range kitchen and two smart bathrooms. The views over…
4 of a kind… Posh Bathrooms – Waterfront wetroom
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, September 4th 2016 If it’s bathrooms you’re after, this luxurious city-centre apartment has three. No 39 Saunders House, on the eighth floor, is a three-bed apartment with 171sqm of light-filled space and 10 metre ceilings. It is presented in immaculate condition with the bathrooms, including a wetroom, fitted with top-of-the-range Villeroy…
4 of a kind… Period houses in Dublin 6 | Gorgeous Gulistan
The Sunday Independent, Sunday, May 1st 2016 Small and perfectly formed, this cute two-bedroom cottage was refurbished and extended in 2014. Gulistan Cottages is a quiet cul de sac just off Mountpleasant Avenue between Ranelagh and Rathmines. No 53 has high ceilings, skylights, a wood-burning stove with restored brick surround, stainless steel kitchen, fully-tiled wet…
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…
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…