Category Archives: Property Picks

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DNG Maxwell, Heaslip and Leonard reveal catalogue for June auction

Leading Galway-based auctioneering firm DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard last week launched the latest in its summer series of auctions. Following the company’s successful May auctions, which saw ten lots be brought to the market, it has brought six more lots to the open market for a sale on Friday June 14th with huge interest [...]

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Ashford Castle sells for €20m

Ashford Castle has been sold for €20m, according to a report in today’s Irish Times. Red Carnation Hotels, owner of 14 boutique hotels, plans to carry out a major refurbishment of the five-star hotel in Cong, Co Mayo, which was placed in receivership 18 months ago by its owner, the Galway businessman Gerry Barrett. He bought the castle and [...]

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Positive start to the year for sales in Meath

The number of property transactions in Meath last year rose by over 23% compared to 2011 according to new analysis by MyHome.ie. There were 795 house sales in the county in 2012, up from the 610 transactions in 2011. However the Meath property market has bucked the trend somewhat in that last year’s level of [...]

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A section of the crowd at Friday's auction in the Harbour Hotel

€3.6m in sales recorded at Galway auction

An estimated 600 people attended a bumper auction in Galway City, at which more than €3.6 million worth of property was sold. The O’Donnellan & Joyce auction last Friday saw a packed auction room in the Harbour Hotel, will potential bidders and onlookers flowing out into the corridor outside. A total of 28 properties in [...]

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D4 home sells for €500,000 above its reserve price at auction

A house in Dublin 4 has sold for €500,000 above its €1.6m guide price. 46 Wellington Road sold yesterday for €2.1m – making it the highest price paid for a home at auction this year. The Ballsbridge house was bought yesterday by a family which plans to restore it to a family home. Both the [...]

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€13m for Eyre Square site

The Irish Times reports that a consortium headed by the wealthy Galway developers Brian and Luke Comer has bought a substantial redevelopment site fronting on to Eyre Square in Galway for slightly over €13 million. Aidan Gavin of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald handled the sale of almost two acres known as the Odeon site for receivers Kieran Wallace and Patrick Horkan of KPMG. The [...]

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O’Donnellan & Joyce prepare for biggest ever auction tomorrow

  O’Donnellan & Joyce will hold the biggest property auction ever held in the west of Ireland when 32 properties go under the auction hammer tomorrow. According to Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce there has been tremendous interest both locally, nationally, and internationally in relation to this forthcoming auction, as there is such a [...]

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Over €12m raised at Allsop Space auction

Just over €12.1m was raised at today’s Allsop Space auction in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. A total of 125 lots were registered for the second auction of the year with 96 selling on the day for a sum total of €12,105,500. Two further lots sold prior to auction. The biggest sale of the day [...]

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Lough Erne Resort on the market

The venue for the G8 world leaders summit next month, the five-star Lough Erne Resort in Fermanagh, is back on the market with a price tag of £10 million. The resort had initially been put up for sale last year on the instructions of the joint administrators appointed to parent company Castle Hume Leisure in May 2011. However, last [...]

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Just one property sells at Galway auction

Just one property sold at today’s DNG Maxwell Heaslip and Leonard property auction in the Imperial Hotel in Galway. Ten lots were due to go under the hammer, although Brooklodge Demesne was withdrawn shortly before proceedings got underway. The only sale was lot two, 35 Cluain Dara, just off the Western Distributor Road. The three [...]

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