Buy of the week: Leenavesta, Westport, Co. Mayo

Buy of the Week: Leenavesta, Westport, Co. MayoBuy of the week this week is also located in the beautiful county of Mayo. Just outside Westport in Leenavesta is a charming fully renovated traditional 2 bed river cottage.

The cottage which is located in the most tranquil of settings with spectacular views across the surrounding country side to Croagh Patrick and The Sheefrey Hills is situated on eight acres of land and has thoughtfully landscaped garden that an incorporates ponds, stone walls and fruit trees among other things.  The property also comes with an adjoining stone outbuilding offering the potential for extension. Read More »

3 properties for under €240,000 in Co. Mayo

3 properties for under €240,000 in MayoThis weeks three featured properties for under X amount are all located in Co. Mayo. All properties come in under the €250,000 mark and by all standards are very good value for money.

First up is a 4 bed semi detached situated in Knock and on the market for only €125,000. Not only is10 Carramore Drive is located in a new development in the heart of Knock but the property benefits from a structural guarantee, fully insulated walls, floors and attic, fully painted interior and oil fired central heating with dual immersion. Read More »

$11.8m for Glenn Close New York Apartment

Glenn Close NY ApartmentGlenn Close has just listed her ‘condo’ that overlooks Central Park for a nice tidy sum of $11.8m! (or approx €8.6m) When you divide it up its just under $50,000 in monthly repayments – well that’s a few extra noughts added to my current rent! Read More »

How to clean your microwave

Like your oven, your microwave can quickly become home to an array of food that has escaped during the cooking process. From ‘burnty’ bits, drops and splashes from soups and sauces and of course the odd explosion of beans and peas you might think avoiding or ignoring the food design on the inside of your microwave would be easier than cleaning it. BUT thanks to lemons the process of removing the caked food is so easy you will wonder why you haven’t done it sooner! Read More »

Household Buy of the week: Tefel Deep fat fryer

Deep fat fryerHousehold buy of the week this week HAS got to be a Tefal Deep fat fryer for only €49.99 AND of course available in Lidl. The fryer has a large capacity holding up to 2.2L oil and 1.2kg of food and also comes with the usually features you would expect a fryer to have such as adjustable temperature control, glass viewing window and automatic lid opening etc. but it also has some added extras such as an anti-odour filter and a cool touch body.

Such good value, I bought one myself!

345,000 vacant homes in Ireland

345,000 vacant homes in IrelandAccording to a report published by the Urban Environment Project at University College Dublin, there are no less than 345,000 empty houses or apartments in the State. This figure equates to just under 18% of all housing in the country.

This enormous oversupply of homes available in the Irish property market is a number well above recent figures released by both the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (Nirsa), based in NUI Maynooth and the Construction Industry Federation (CIF). Of course both groups defended their research with CIF stating that their 40,000 figure from the Irish Home Builders’ Association was the number of new, unsold homes in the State and did not include other categories such as second homes. Read More »

Grand Design: 39 Deerpark East, Westport, Co Mayo

39 Deerpark East, Westport, Co Mayo

First grand design of the month this March is an architecturally designed 4 bed detached by award winning architect Michael Horan of Axo Architects. Not only that, but the property was also nominated for an award by the Architectural Association of Ireland!

39 Deerpark East is a unique property located in a small residential cul-de-sac just … Read More »

Buy of the week: Station Court, Gorey, Co. Wexford

Station Court, Gorey, Co. Wexford

Buy of the week this week is a 3 bed townhouse located in Station Court, Gorey for €199,500!

Station court is a new development of one, two & three bedroom apartments, three bedroom duplex units and two & three bedroom townhouses which is location only a stones throw to Gorey Main Street and the recently opened Gorey shopping centre. … Read More »

Biggest property in the US: Ira Rennert’s Mansion

Biggest property in the US: Ira Rennert’s Mansion

Reportedly the self-made billionaire Ira Rennert, founder of the Renco Group owns the largest residential property in the whole of the US. The property is situated on a 63 acres site in Sagaponack, New York and has 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, as well as the usual gigantic dining room. In addition to the main home … Read More »

Drop in UK house prices during February

Drop in UK house prices during FebruaryAccording to the last property index report from Halifax in the UK residential property there saw an unexpected price fall of 1.5% in February. The decrease has been the first drop in UK residential house prices since June last year. The decline followed a downwardly revised 0.4% rise in January and left prices 4.5% higher in the three months to February compared with a year ago.

Commenting on the drop, Halifax’s housing economist Martin Ellis said; ‘the bad weather in the first two months of 2010, together with the return of the lowest stamp duty threshold to £125,000, are likely to have had an adverse impact on housing demand’. Read More »