House and apartments to view down Wicklow way – and a Pimlico address with sweet connections, writes ORNA MULCAHYProperty Editor
TWO, three and four-bedroom houses in a development with good eco credentials are on sale in Rathnew, Co Wicklow with prices starting at €299,000. Dooley Poynton Auctioners is handling sales at Wilton Manor where 32 homes are on offer. The houses feature solar panels and heat recovery systems, and come with a top BER rating. Other features include a multi-room sound system and Ipod stations as well as more traditional extras such as timber flooring and carpeting.
On view Saturday and Sunday,
2pm -4pm
IN ENNISKERRY, Forge Lodge, one of three modern houses in an enclave off Forge Road, overlooking the village, has come on the market through Sherry FitzGerald having been previously with another agency. The five-bedroom house on a third of an acre is asking €2.65 million. The 488sq m (5,253sq ft) house was designed to impress with its sweeping staircase, four reception rooms and open-plan kitchen with a wide bay window taking in the view. At the very top of the house is a large games room that could easily convert to a sixth bedroom suite.
On view Saturday, 1pm-2pm
MEANWHILE in Bray, Co Wicklow, over 20 apartments have been sold at Waltrim Grove, an attractive new development off Killarney Road, with two-bedroom own-door apartments priced at €225,000 and three-bedroom duplexes asking €299,950 through Douglas Newman Good. According to selling agent Gemma Lanigan, several first-time buyers have invested in the two-beds, which, she says, are larger than average at 72sq m (775sq ft) while three-bedroom duplexes are also generous at 104sq m (1,119sq ft).
On view Saturday, noon-2pm
IN RATHMINES, an attractive Victorian house at 9 Belgrave Road has had its price reduced from €1.5 million to €1.1 million by Felicity Fox.
The two-storey over basement house is in need of refurbishment though a lot of its original features remain intact. It’s a spacious house of 248sq m (2,672sq ft), with five bedrooms at present, though new owners may alter the layout to allow for more bathrooms.
On view Saturday 1pm–2pm
IN PIMLICO, Dublin 8, a neat two-bedroom house at the evocatively named South Summer Street is new to the market with Lisney priced at €245,000. Located between Marrowbone Lane and Cork Street, number 6 is part of a terrace that was built for Jacobs workers in the 1920s.
The 65sq m (700sq ft) house comes with a small paved back garden. Unusually, it shares ownership, along with the other 26 houses, of a rear courtyard that provides car parking.
On View Saturday, 1pm-2pm
