A railway worker’s cottage in Inchicore, a renovated three-bed terrace in Ballybrack, a heritage home in D4, an apartment in a Georgian townhouse, or a D10 house with a big garden, on a road named after an eminent Gothic ghost story writer - which of these 5 Dublin homes is for you?
Home hunting is hard work. It takes time, tenacity, the ability to save, and a degree of luck to become the highest bidder and get the keys to your own place.
Buyers now want homes they can live in, for few can afford to run a mortgage and rent whilst doing renovations.
The autumn selling season is now in full swing, and here are five homes worth viewing in Dublin, ranging in price from €295,000 to €425,000.
Across the road from the park in D10
Address: 308 Le Fanu Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, D10 R886
Asking price: €295,000
Agent: Ray Cooke
Dog walkers and running fans will love the location of number 308 Le Fanu Road in Ballyfermot.
The C2 Ber-rated, two-bedroom, two-bathroom terraced house extends to 76 square metres.
Simply appointed, with laminate floors, it has a small sitting room to the front, a larger dining room to the rear, and a kitchen in an extension.
This opens out to a large and private back garden.
Upstairs, there are two good-sized bedrooms and the family bathroom. The house is unfurnished, and the new owner will likely do bathroom and kitchen upgrades.
Across the road is Le Fanu Park, where there are seven soccer pitches, a skate/BMX and a playpark.
It is also home to Ballyfermot Sports and Fitness Centre.
It is named after 19th-century Gothic and ghost story writer Sheridan Le Fanu, whose Ghost Stories of the Tiled House had strong associations with the neighbouring village of Chapelizod, a mere six-minute walk away.
A railway worker’s cottage along the tracks in Inchicore
Address: 10 Murray Cottages, Inchicore, Dublin 8, D10DF40
Asking price: €385,000
Agent: Paul Tobin
This former railway worker’s cottage was upgraded and extended in 2008.
The works included flipping its entrance away from the tracks to Heuston Station, which runs to the rear, and installing the front door on the other side of the house.
The reno included double-glazing.
Now accessed via a pedestrian gate, it opens into the kitchen, a vaulted-ceilinged space that is light-filled, yet private, with additional lighting shining through the large-format roof lights.
There is a utility room and a separate shower room off it.
From the kitchen, there is a corridor that takes you to the first of its two double bedrooms.
Beyond it is a door into the living room, where sliding doors open out to a patio.
The stairs to the principal bedroom lead from her up to a dormer bedroom, which was added as part of the renovation. It has an ensuite bathroom.
Parking is on-street in the C3 Ber-rated house.
The intercity and commuter trains slow down at this point before arrival at Heuston.
A window onto Georgian Dublin in D2
Address: Apartment 25, 18 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, D02ER25
Asking price: €425,000
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald
If it’s charm you’re looking for, this one-bedroom, one-bathroom, top-floor apartment, looking onto Pembroke Street, could be for you.
The views from its six-over-six sash windows are towards Fitzwilliam Square, where its residents all have a key to the private square.
Within a five-minute walk of St. Stephen’s Green, it is a similar distance to all that Baggotonia has to offer.
Housed in the original part of a Georgian townhouse, it is one of 25 units in the scheme built in 2006, most of which are housed within a courtyard and what had been a mews house fronting onto Fitzwilliam Lane.
It has an open-plan kitchen and living room that spans the width of the two-bay house.
The bedroom is to the back, where there is also a smart bathroom. Ber-exempt, the unit extends to 42 square metres.
A heritage house in downtown Ballsbridge
Address: The Cottage, 38 Dodder View Cottages, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, D04V2T1
Asking price: €425,000
Agent: O’Mahony Auctioneers
These double-fronted workers' cottages along the Dodder are bang in the middle of Ballsbridge but feel far away from the freneticism of its four-lane traffic flow.
Very sought after by those trading down within the area, number 38 is an end terrace house configured as a one-bed, one-bathroom property.
Extending to 47 square metres, the E1 Ber-rated house opens into a small hall with the living room to the left and the bedroom to the right.
The kitchen is accessed via the living room, and the bathroom is off it.
You could enlarge the bedroom by moving its wall into the dining part of the kitchen.
It would allow you to fit the bathroom there and push the kitchen out to take advantage of the south-facing aspect to the rear.
B-rated end terrace in the Brack
Address: 52 Elmgrove, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin, A96H6V0
Asking price: €410,000
Agent: Premium Collection LWK
This three-bedroom, two-bathroom end-terrace house is situated in a quiet cul-de-sac in a mature estate in Ballybrack.
The property has been upgraded and boasts a B3 Ber-rating.
It has a separate sitting room and an eat-in kitchen downstairs, with scope to extend out and or to the side, subject to planning permission.
Upstairs, there are three bedrooms, two doubles and a single.
The house, which extends to 79 square metres, has a south-facing back garden, views of the mountains, and off-street parking for up to two cars.
