Following recent reports that the rental market in the UK is starting to pick up it seems the bug has sailed across the waters to Irish shores. According to the Lettings wing of Sherry FitzGerald there are signs (albeit small) of stability emerging in the Lettings Market.
However the signs of stability are more concentrated in sought after locations in the Dublin city centre market and are not the talk of the entire country. This new found good news in Dublin’s city centre they say is due to a “combination of a tightening of supply and resilient demand resulting in more stabilised rents”. Not only that but because of the high level of quality apartments available in the city centre along with public transport facilities and a wide range of amenities, the rental market in the city is more attractive and highly sought after by potential tenants. Poorer located properties… Read More
The ground is looks fairly miserable and rock hard at the moment and although it seems to have gotten milder over the past few days we are still yet to see spring bulbs in full bloom and overwhelming the countryside with their colour. While we wait for the bulbs to show up we give you our top 5 Spring bulbs for your garden. 
According to the latest residential lettings survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK residential landlords there are likely to see the rental market pick up in the coming months.
Buy 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.
This 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.
Glenn 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! 
Household 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.
According 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.
