One swallow doesn't make a summer but yesterday's sale of a D4 mews house needing refurbishment for €1.22 million shows that that, there is some life left in the Dublin property market.
The three-bedroom house at 15B Clyde Lane, overlooking Herbert Park, was lauched on the market three weeks ago by Gunne,with an AMV of €850,000. Selling agent Jackie Connelly got "a lot of calls" about the property and these followed through with several bidders showing up to yesterday's auction.
Meanwhile, in Monkstown, Co Dublin, Colliers Jackson-Stops last week withdrew a five-bed two-storey over garden level house, 5 Brighton Ave, from auction at €1.9 million and sold it immediately afterwards.
Elsewhere, Savills HOK is now quoting €795,000 for 12 Sion Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin - a three-bed bungalow - following its withdrawal at auction last week.
In Co Wexford, a 22-bedroom mansion on 63 acres overlooking Hooke Head Peninsula - Loftus Hall, Fethard-on-Sea, New Ross - sold after auction through Sherry FitzGerald Radford. Also in Co Wexford, a 38.2-acre non-residential farm at Parkannesley, Ballygarrett, Gorey sold for €635,000 through Quinn Property and a 16-acre roadside holding, Scarnagh, Coolgreaney, Gorey, Co Wexford fetched €350,000 through the same agent. In west Cork, a six-bed period manor on 14 acres, Rosebank Skibbereen, was withdrawn at auction and agent Sherry Fitz-Gerald O'Neill is seeking offers of €850,000.
Elsewhere, a 127-acre residential holding, including 62 acres of forestry at Redbog and Minvaud Lower, Hacketstown, Co Carlow sold at auction through Quinn Property. Lot one: 28 acres. Sold: €228,000. Lot two: 1.25 acres. Sold: €33,000. Lot three: 96.5 acres. Sold: €285,000.
In private treaty sales, Savills HOK has sold the following properties: 7 Mt Prospect Ave, Clontarf, D3, a four-bed semi (asking price €1.25m); 9 Dunseverick Rd, Clontarf, D3, a four-bed semi (asking price €950,000); 6 Hunters Row, Clontarf, D3, a three-bed semi (asking price €650,000); Lucerne, 39 Castle Ave, Clontarf, D3, a two-bed apartment (asking price €390,000); 11 St Vincent's Street North, Phibsborough, D7, a three-bed mid-terrace house (asking price €750,000); 17 Walnut Ct, Courtlands, D9, a four-bed semi (asking price €720,000); 14 Rowanbyrn, Blackrock, Co Dublin, a four-bed detached house (asking price €695,000).
The following properties have been sold by private treaty through Lisney: 83 St Begnet's Villas, Dalkey, Co Dublin, a three-bed semi (asking price €635,000); 1 Marine View, Rock Rd, Blackrock, Co Dublin, a two-bed apartment (asking price €425,000); 26 Landscape Ave, Churchtown, D14, a three-bed semi (asking price €695,000); 26 Aikenhead Tce, Stella Gardens, Irishtown, D4, a three-bed mid-terrace house (asking price €625,000); Avalon,
In Co Meath, a four-bed semi, 34 The Village Green, Carlanstown, Kells, sold by private treaty for €275,000 through T J Gavigan Real Estate Alliance and a four-bed semi, 49 Oakleigh, Navan, Co Meath, sold for €270,000 through the same agent
Also in Co Meath, a three-bed semi - Elm Drive, Navan - sold for €250,000 through TJ Gavigan Real Estate Alliance.
In Commercial sales, Deighton Memorial Hall, Burrin Street, Carlow, was withdrawn at €700,000 and sold after auction for a higher figure through Sothern Real Estate Alliance.
