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I am at a loss to understand why it is the National Gallery cannot perhaps take care of it and maybe put it on display for the general public on occasion. This does form part of the remit of the National Gallery. As an asset of the nation, it would be of more value there. With respect to the...

Re: What I have actually said about property, prices and borrowing I would rather disagree with this assessment of the Property Pin, speaking as someone who has posted there for quite some time. I think if you were to look at most of what's there, it consists of quite a broad range of...

Re: What I have actually said about property, prices and borrowing Brendan, I would be grateful if you read my post more carefully. I pointed out that you might find it desirable to leave the thread locked - as in not open for additional posts to be made to it - but that I personally would...

Re: What I have actually said about property, prices and borrowing Brendan, I rather think this is a somewhat unfair summary of the situation. As I recall I contributed to various property value related threads on this site and while I recall some fractiousness, it is unfair to a great number...

IF you do decide to rent it, please get professional taxation advice.

Actually, I don't think they did understand your question. If I read you correctly, you wished to know what options were available to you for perhaps selling the property to the council. Their responses seemed to amount to implying to you that you could get out of this ownership without taking a...

I think it depends on the square metrage and whether the next purchaser is an FTB or not.

I would say yes, it's too far too commute, but a lot depends on what value you put on a) your time and b) your own space. Personally I rent about 10 minutes from work so don't spend any time commuting at all. That being said I looked into the possibility of commuting from Portlaois at one...

My personal experience is of agents not turning up or turning up 20 minutes late. My time is valuable too. Murray you're in an industry where there are some very good people and there are quite a few bad people. You're also in an industry which is heading for a down turn which will leave a few...

Your circumstances have changed since the mortgage app - it might be worth seeing how they might be revised in light of new developments. In any case, to your original question about keeping the apartment - the question would be "what for?" If you're planning to start a family, do you really...

Actually Arthur, you're on the 230 which is hourly Airport to Portmarnock. Ridgewood has quite a bit of property on sale at the moment. It's a nice enough estate, lived in it for two years, but you would want to have a car, it's a bit out of Swords. Pharmacy is okay, shopping wise I'd say the...

A bit defensive, are you? Put it this way. You get 100 houses at sub 300KE in the Dublin Area. I don't know where the OP is, but the question is are those houses usefully accessible to his/her place of work? How do you know what is acceptable and what his or her needs are. I'm not sensitive -...

Rules are rules. If the purchasing party or part of it is not a FTB, there are no special cases.

Clubman, the word "property" does not equate to "house". Personally, I would like a house for various personal reasons. Within my budget which is sub 300K are one bedroomed apartments which don't fit my needs. On occasion a two bed apartment might show up. A budget of 440K gives you a lot more...

I disagree. There is also the option of renting which is less of a struggle.

Very few and therein lies the problem.

Do you have a source for this, or is it just speculation on your part? The point is, stamp duty reform/abolition as put forward by McDowell, insofaras I understood it, related to next government not next budget. Which leaves them nicely off the hook. The problem is if the PDs pull the plug on...

The last time that stamp duty for FTBs was repraised, there was a fairly instantaneous jump in house prices as money which would have gone to the government went to vendors instead. Secondly, 60K is double the average salary. If you have to be earning double the average salary to get a starter...

Shhhh - we don't want everyone to be trying that, now do we? We don't want any panic in the housing market because God knows, we're going to get the soft landing according to every estate agent and bank economist. Why rock the boat?

The lack of honesty is breathtaking though. The problem with housing price growth is it is coming with debt growth. And no one really wants to admit it. The point is this: as long as we have "impressive" house price growth, we will have "impressive" debt growth. It is the shadow side of the...