The Sunday Times l Nice Moves | Four to view this week – Docklands Duplex.
The Sunday Times, Sunday, April 23rd 2017 When the duplex penthouse apartments at Clarion Quay in Dublin’s north docklands were launched off the plans in 2001, they had price tags of IR£400,000 (€507,900), and the scheme won an architectural award. No 17, a three-bedroom duplex penthouse on the fifth and sixth floors, extends to 92…
The Sunday Times l City Slicker | On the Waterfront in Docklands
The Sunday Times, Sunday, April 16th 2017 Walk to work from this fourth-floor apartment on Hanover Quay, with its sunny balcony and big views over Docklands The Waterfront on Hanover Quay should probably be renamed the Phoenix, given that this is an apartment development born into the ashes of a recession that was unkind to,…
The Sunday Times l Nice moves | Buyers find sanctuary in The Cloisters
The Sunday Times, Sunday, February 26th 2017 Co Dublin, €620,000 Built on the grounds of the convent-run Carysfort College, in Blackrock, in the early 1990s, The Cloisters development has matured nicely over the years. Buyers have always liked the idea of living off Victorian Carysfort Avenue, which is close to Blackrock village and the Dart.…
The Sunday Times | They’re out of the starting gate
The Sunday Times, Sunday, January 15th 2017 And they’re off. Some may call it a faltering start, but the 2017 property season has begun. Last week saw a trickle of homes come to the market, though estate agents were lamenting the fact that some clients were still clearing up the Christmas detritus and weren’t ready…
The Sunday Times | Cash flows in with surge of rental yields
The Sunday Times, Sunday, January 8th 2017 Dublin 2 South city centre, Grand Canal Dock CSO average house price: €359,384 2017 prediction: up 5% Despite a busy start to the year, the rate of property transactions in Dublin 2 slowed in the second quarter of 2016, falling by about 33%. It picked up again in the third…
The Sunday Times | Return customers – this elegant Ranelagh house…
The Sunday Times, December 18th 2016 The rain was belting down in Dublin on Wednesday morning and many of the houses around Ranelagh had Christmas fairy lights twinkling in the windows. It’s times such as this that Georgian properties come into their own. Those of us who aren’t lucky enough to live in a period…
The Sunday Times | Nice Moves – Luxury duo on the docks
The Sunday Times, Sunday, November 13th 2016 Dublin 2, €600,000 It’s all about options at The Waterfront, on Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock. Buyers and renters will be interested in a pair of apartments here. No 9 is a first-floor, south-facing unit with views of the water. Measuring just under 83 square metres, it has two…
Nice moves | Docklands investment, by Linda Daly
The Sunday Times, Sunday, September 18th 2016 Dublin 2, €370,000 If you can’t afford the €1.4m two-bedroom penthouse that was released on Forbes Quay in Dublin’s docklands last week, here’s a one-bedroom alternative. No 56 Hanover Riverside is a south-facing apartment on bustling Grand Canal Square – beside the Bord Gais Energy Theatre. The 50…
Docking and set to take off, by Eithne Dunne
The Sunday Times, Sunday, September 11th 2016 Less than two kilometres from Dublin’s city centre, in the heart of the tech hub, water lovers can catch the surf, do a backside spin on a wakeboard or take part in a stand-up paddling yoga class. On a sunny day in September, the Grand Canal Dock is…
The only way is up. Not put off by limited room to manoeuvre…, by Linda Daly
The Sunday Times, Sunday, July 10th 2016 Not put off by limited room to manoeuvre, some developers are on an upward trajectory What do you do when you don’t have the space to build out? You build up, of course. A new trend is emerging in the Dublin property market, with developers eager to maximise…