The tall homes that comprise Albany in Killiney may be period in style but their eco-credentials are fully 21st century, with an A3 BER making them cheaper to run than older piles in the affluent coastal...
The final phase of Hampton Gardens in Balbriggan offers a rarity- a four-bed detached home in a Co Dublin seaside town for less than €300,000.
Beechpark, a development in the north-east Kildare town of Leixlip, was designed with expanding families in mind: each has an attic that can be transformed into an extra bedroom or den at a...
Kilcock, a town on the Kildare-Meath border, has a unique claim to fame: it's the only location in Europe where a road, a canal, a railway and a river all run side by side.
Ardmore Green, a new infill development equidistant between Monkstown and Dun Laoghaire, has a discreet location, tucked away in the midst of Ardmore Park, a residential estate built off Kill Avenue in the mid-1950s.
Hansfield, which was singled out by Fingal County Council in the early noughties for fast-track planning, sits to the north of a green belt running west from the Phoenix Park, through Farmleigh,...
Narrow three-storey new-builds have become the de rigueur style on Dublin's southside in the post-crash era. But the three-storey homes that make up the latest phase of Stepaside Park, at the foothills...
Somerton House in Castle- knock was one of the great Liffey-side Dublin country estates.
If the walls could talk, Ireland's Georgian villas would have plenty of anecdotes. But Neptune House, situated between the villages of Blackrock and Monkstown, has a more colourful history...
St David's Grove, a new enclave of seven houses, is located on the site of the Artane School of Music, from which the Artane Band - a staple of All-Ireland Sundays at Croke Park - is drawn. The school itself is being extended and revamped to include a recording studio, more classrooms, a marching...
During the 1840s, huge crowds from Dublin city attended horse racing on open land in Baldoyle. So popular was the attraction that an enclosed racecourse was opened in the north Dublin...
Finlay Park's location, off a walkway along the Grand Canal in Naas and a mere bridge crossing from the centre of the Co Kildare town, inspired the names of the house types at the scheme - they're all named after a Naas bridge, from the Abbey to the Poolpuck.
Located on a cul-de-sac in Carrickmines, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains, Brambledown is an enclave of just 11 contemporary-style detached and self-detached homes surrounded by land zoned for...
Until the 1930s, when house building first began in Walkinstown, the area was one steeped in farming. Indeed, the name of the Dublin suburb is a corruption of Wilkinstown, the townland named after Wilkins, a tenant farmer who lived in the expanse in the 15th century.
Willie Nolan, who is considered the father of Irish professional golf, was born in Bray but spent much of his short life living in the north Dublin suburb of Baldoyle. There, his memory lives on, in the...
The term "starter home" fell out of fashion after the demise of the Celtic Tiger, as negative equity meant first-time buyers were trapped with their first property long after they had outgrown it.
A mere handful of new developments have been built during the post-crash era in the middle-class south Dublin enclave of Churchtown, so Castlepark, a scheme of just six homes located in a private...
Interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen earned celebrity status in the early Noughties as the face of the BBC makeover show Changing Rooms, in which couples swapped houses with friends or neighbours and decorated one room in each other's homes. When both couples saw their...
The name El Pinar may conjure up an exotic Spanish villa surrounded by a pine grove, but when a developer was building an apartment block just off the Kilgobbin Road in Sandyford a decade ago, his Spanish wife - inspired by the pine trees in the area - suggested the name for the Dublin scheme.
In new homes the first-time buyer sector receives the lion's share of the attention - most developments are built with this sector in mind, most media attention focuses on the difficulties...
When Michelle Roche was in her twenties and renting a Victorian house around the corner from Rathgar Road, she used to daydream about how...
Prospective buyers at Glenside at Carrickmines Green, off the Glenamuck Road, won't have to go too far to furnish their new homes: the southside Dublin development is next to The Park,...
During the Noughties, some 150 homes were built on the former estate lands of Knocksedan House, an imposing Georgian residence built in the 1760s in the farming landscape west of Swords.
Ridgewood, a residential estate on the Dublin Airport side of Swords, is a family affair in myriad ways. The children who moved to Ridgewood in the late 1990s after their parents bought a home in the then-new development are now buying a property of their own in a new section of the site called...
Clairville Lodge, a new enclave of four and five-bed properties launching in Malahide tomorrow, is set off the semi-rural Streamstown Lane, just a five-minute drive from the coastal village.
Drogheda was last month added to the Government's list of rent pressure zones - aimed at limiting rent hikes to 4pc - after experiencing what Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy described as...
Castleknock Cross is aptly named - the west Dublin development is situated on the corner of Beechpark Avenue and the old Navan Road, about a 10-minute walk from Castleknock village.
The traditional design of the red-brick houses that make up Norabook, a new development in Clontarf aimed at affluent house-hunters, was inspired by the period homes in the enclave's environs.
The latest phase of Eden, a once-protracted residential development linking the fashionable Cork village of Blackrock with the rebel city, is bound to be even more attractive than preceding tranches: it comes just after a €2m facelift to Blackrock that includes a new pedestrian plaza at the harbour,...
When Hamilton Park launched two years ago, hundreds of potential buyers queued outside the on-site sales office a week ahead of the official launch to bag a house of their choice.
Eustace Court is a rare offering - a new block of energy-efficient apartments within walking distance of Dún Laoghaire town centre and its seafront promenade.
During the inception of the Celtic Tiger, many of the stud farms around Dublin were acquired and redeveloped into large residential estates. Among them was the Ongar Stud, close to the Co Meath border.
Cairn Homes, the stock exchange-listed builder behind new residential estates such as Parkside in the north Dublin suburb of Balgriffin, and Churchfields in Ashbourne, will open an information suite this weekend to market its planned new scheme in Naas.
Malahide locals are traditionally reluctant to leave the affluent coastal village when they are seeking a new property, preferring to stay close to the suburb's high-end restaurants, gourmet food...
Odin's Way, a scheme of four-bed family homes, is set on a three-acre site just off Taylor's Lane in Rathfarnham, near Grange Golf Club.
A new homes season that is expected to see a large number of launches between now and November - at least in the Dublin and surrounding commuter belt - has kicked off with a busy week.
In 1780, while on sick leave from the military arm of the East India Company, Sir Robert Brooke set up a cotton mill on his lands in north Kildare. He rather optimistically called the new industrial village Prosperous, though within six years the mill had failed, despite Brooke spending all his own...
While Castlethorn Construction's latest schemes in the planned west Dublin town of Adamstown are targeting first-time buyers, Somerton in nearby Lucan has been billed as a more upmarket affair, with properties suitable for trader-uppers.
City-weary house-hunters seeking a taste of the Good Life could opt for a scheme in Killeshin, a rural village just 5km west of Carlow town that overlooks the picturesque Barrow valley.
St Helen's, a new development in Adamstown, offers that rarity that is a three-bed home in Co Dublin for less than €300,000. Small wonder, then, that the €290,000 terraced houses among the...
Carlinn Hall in Dundalk has come a long way since it was first launched in 2007 by Eamon Ryan, the then Green party minister for communications, energy and natural resources.
As thoroughbred horses pounded across the wind and rain-swept Curragh racecourse on Sunday during the second leg of the Irish Champions Weekend, home-buyers raced nearby to buy the first homes launched at The Paddocks.
YouTube footage of Santry in the 1960s shows a neighbourhood on the brink of a transition, an agricultural hub with pasture and tillage gradually becoming a suburb of Dublin city. Farmers on a...
Rugby aficionados with a taste for James Bond-style living and the deep pockets to match may spring for the penthouses in the new building at...
Broadlands, a new development directly across the road from Killiney Golf Club and backing on to the upmarket suburb's Cluny Park, has been in fruition for more than a decade.
In Portmarnock - reputedly named after St Marnock, a contemporary of St Patrick who settled along the North Dublin coastline - history repeated itself last week when a dozen locals camped out in their cars for days outside the new St Marnock's Bay development to ensure they secured their choice...
Hundreds of years before the late Charlie Haughey was holding court at Kinsealy, the north Dublin suburb was known for its linen mill.
