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.
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
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.
According 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.
