Give a home a new lease of life with retrofitting and refurbishment

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Refurbishing an older property can be an excellent way to build your ideal home for a fraction of the cost. While turnkey homes are a smoother and usually stress-free option, it has never been easier to give a home a new lease of life through government supports such as the Vacant Property Refurbishment and energy retrofitting grants.

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Galway rents continue to rise

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

In the past year rental prices in Galway city have risen by 11.3 per cent, according to the most recent Daft.ie report, published at the end of February.

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Galway faces two ‘exciting and busy years’ for new homes

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

The years of 2024 and 2025 are set to be an exciting and busy time for new Homes in Galway city and county.

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Galway’s rental market to see ‘relatively stable’ rent and steady demand in 2024

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

As a tenant, searching for a property to let in Galway over the past number of years has been an omnious task and one few would envy.

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How has the residential property market performed in Galway in the last year?

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

In the past 12 months, DNG Maxwell Heaslip and Leonard’s Residential Sales division had another promising and positive year, listing circa 230 properties across Galway city and county. With 92 per cent selling in the first four weeks of going to the market and over 60 per cent of them achieving figures above their initial guide prices, the residential property market in Galway continued to show a positive and steady growth.

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MyHomeEcoRating, innovative BER guide that saves heartache for house hunters

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

MyHomeEcoRating is an innovative feature on the Myhome.ie website that provides house hunters and visitors to the site with the current Building Energy Rating (BER) of a property along with the estimated cost of refurbishment works needed to improve that energy rating.

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What compels us to seek a new home

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Home is a sanctuary where memories are etched into the walls, where comfort resides in every corner, and where one's identity finds its roots.

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Beautiful Moycullen bungalow

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Tawnybeg, Moycullen, €300,000
This charming southwest facing two bed detached bungalow is set on a mature site of approximately 0.5 acre with the added benefit of a sizeable floored attic, which allows for further potential to expand. The property is very well maintained by its current owner who has occupied this home since it was built in 2005.

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Sales volumes and prices increase throughout the county and city

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Looking at a sample of locations in Galway city and county, there has been a significant increase in both the volume of properties sold, and selling prices, in 2023, according to the property price register.

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Spacious apartment in Wellpark

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

No 25 Sailin, Wellpark, €250,000
O'Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers presents to the market a large two bed apartment in the popular Sailin development, situated in a prime location on the edge of Galway city centre and in the popular Wellpark area.

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Galway hotel outlook for 2024 remains bright

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

From an economic perspective the outlook for the Galway hotel sector remains positive. The latest Irish labour market data show all-time high employment of 2.71 million across the economy while average weekly earnings grew by 4.6 per cent compared to the same period in 2022, both of which supports the outlook for leisure spending in the county.

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Turnkey three bed home in Newcastle

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

No 305 Corrib Park, €330,000
No 305 Corrib Park is a three bed mid-terrace home which has recently been renovated throughout. The property has a westerly aspect meaning the property enjoys morning sun at the front and afternoon/evening sun at the rear. Built in 1972, this property has now been updated to modernise it with central heating, new flooring throughout, all new windows and external doors replaced in 2021, and chimney relined and plastered in early 2020. The attic has been fully insulated and the walls pumped. An extension was added to the rear of the property in 1994 to create an expansive kitchen/breakfast room.

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Housing needs change as we grow older….but we don’t want to move

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Figures from Census 2022 show that there are 1.2 million vacant bedrooms in Irish homes. Many of these bedrooms are in homes where the parents have become ‘empty nesters’, and these bedrooms are unlikely to be occupied in the near future.

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Property advice for First Year Students

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

by Oisín Mac Aodha, Ocean Property Management

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Exceptional detached home on a beautiful site in Moycullen

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Knockbane, Moycullen, €475,000.
O'Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering to market this exceptional detached residence, located on a beautifully manicured site in idyllic surroundings just outside Moycullen, Co Galway.

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Supports for first-time buyers

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

First-time buyers availing of the government’s two main help-to-buy schemes dominated the Irish mortgage market last year, accounting for 61 per cent of the transactions, a new report by the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) has indicated.

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How to avoid being stung by the hidden costs as a first time buyer

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

If you're planning to make the leap into home ownership in Ireland, make sure you won't be stung by hidden add-on costs like conveyancing fees and stamp duty.

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O’Donnellan & Joyce presents an exceptional semidetached home in Roscam

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

No 60 Reilean, Roscam, Galway, €450,000
O'Donnellan and Joyce auctioneers is offering to market one of the most exceptional semidetached residences in the popular Reilean development of Roscam. No 60 Reilean offers amazing living and reception areas with an abundance of space of approximately 135.7sq m throughout.

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‘Corrib Causeway’ seeks to deliver ‘over 200 homes’ in ‘new neighbourhood’

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

The Land Development Agency (LDA) and Galway City Council (GCC) are seeking the public's views on its plans for a 'mixed use development', which will deliver more than '200 homes' on the site of the Black Box Theatre and two car parks.

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Substantial detached home in Barna

Thu, Mar 14, 2024

Boleybeg East, Barna, €740,000
O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering for sale this substantial detached residence in the picturesque setting of Boleybeg East, Barna.

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