ESTATE AGENTS who wrapped up sales in the run-up to Christmas want to let the market know the details, but can’t because of the current impasse over house prices disclosures.
A case in point is the sale of 61 Marlborough Road in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, a three-bedroom terraced house that has changed hands a number of times in recent years.
Peter Kenny of Colliers took the refurbished 269sq m (2,900sq ft) house on his books at the beginning of December, showing it to “10 cash-rich buyers”.
The asking price was €2.6 million. A sale was quickly agreed, says Kenny, and concluded last week.
“We didn’t get the asking prices,” says Kenny, “but the owners were anxious to move on and knew they were getting a good deal in what they were buying.”
The three-storey house was once home to the artist Jack B Yeats, and at one stage in the early 1990s it boasted window shutters painted by the artist, which unfortunately were removed by the then owners who sold them in 1994 for £216,000.
