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With standing room only at a busy auction room in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway city based auctioneers Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip concluded its latest round of summer auctions with two out of the four properties being offered to the market achieving excellent prices. These latest sales show a 65 per cent success rate for the year so far and there is no doubt that Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip has a proven formula for success and is leading the way when it comes to getting results.

The magic appeal of Oughterard persists. Recessions will come and go, property markets will follow the upward and downward curve as night follows day, but always, even in the most turbulent times, there are little oases that will buck the trend to some extent. The village provides all the necessities for daily living while still retaining a close community atmosphere. Shops are adequate, pubs and restaurants abound, excellent schools, golf course, and enveloping it all in a watery embrace is the beautiful Lough Corrib.

It’s all in the name really. How often do the whimsical, or even downright ridiculous, handles some developers attached to the properties, make one laugh in disbelief, the Sycamore Groves with not a tree to be seen; the Bay Views with a distant glimpse of a patch of water; the plainer the property, often the fancier and more meaningless the name attached.

The trouble about superlatives is that they become meaningless with over-use. Nowhere is this more evident than in estate agents’ parlance. How often does a reader’s lip curl slightly in amusement on reading the exaggerated claims attributed to your modest three bedroom semi in an estate of a couple of hundred virtually identical houses? “Charming... splendid… superb… delightful… stylish…” — a general rule of thumb is there can’t be too many flowing adjectives in any brochure or promotional real estate literature.

As a market leader when it comes to the auction market in 2009 Galway city based agent Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip is preparing for its September auctions tomorrow in the Imperial Hotel in Eyre Square. Two more properties are expected to go under the hammer in what is expected to be a busy afternoon for the local agents.