Looking to move... WTF is going on with prices?

Those areas likely have bidding going over asking price as well, just with asking being at a lower level.

Like most parts of Dublin, those areas have good and bad estates - often within a few hundred metres of each other.

Parts of Inchicore in particular would be seen as very desirable due to the central location.

I posted earlier in this thread about a house I've for sale for 150k and lots of viewings but no one really interested, we have dropped the price to 130 with the hope that it might sell but after 6 more viewings it's still not got any real interest.

I'm thinking of pulling it off the market and renting again as I've had more interest in it as a rental property, why is that?

Don't want to be too specific on the house in case I break forum rules on advertising etc but the house has fibre broadband and you can see the cell tower from the rear, located in a village 10 mins from a major golf course in the west and 3 bed detached, 800m from primary school, it has everything going for it except someone to buy it, can't figure why it has not sold already yet have had several enquries to rent.

Sounds strange alright. Maybe try a different agent. I know of agents who purposely interfere with bids and sales to get the price down so their mates can buy cheap. Change agent and see what happens.

Also go into the house and view yourself as a viewer. Look over the fence to the neighbours gardens. Anything that would turn you off if you were to buy there. Like a house beside that is clearly rented.

I definitely wouldnt get into renting again though if i were you. You might never get the house back again when the next legislation comes in.

What condition is it in? What you have done to bring it to market ?

Bought a house, red bricked type.

This is a guy who delivers post on a bicycle.

Really doesn't describe the house as there are a number of different types of redbrick houses on the road. I think calling jealousy is right. He managed to afford it but it doesn't sound like you are friends. Lots of people have different situations that people don't know about.

I remember I bumped into my old boss outside my house because it turns out his in-laws lived on my road. He was obviously disgusted seeing me being younger than him living where he couldn't afford it was all very weird as he went about questioning how I live there. Your mam's house, in laws, renting etc... before I said we bought it 5 years ago. He really didn't want to know that and was itching to ask how we could afford it. It was quite simple we sold our first house and got a slightly bigger mortgage added savings but got a house twice the size. Houses for FTBs were shooting up faster than the next level up and when we bought the first house there was a weird price difference on the same road where people were paying an extra 10% for houses on one portion of the road divided by a main road. As prices rose and the 10% disappeared as well we made a large profit meaning the mortgage increase was quite small and we got a tracker so it actually is cheaper than the first house would be now.

I know one couple that made a killing on their first house that the ended up with a huge house and a smaller mortgage than us. The property boom before the crash had a lot of winners as well as losers but it is always a gamble you just have to reduce risk where you can.

Maybe he found Bertie's money that he won on the horses, he lives just off Griffith Avenue.

I went to college for 10 years (Bachelors, Masters, PhD) and then post-doc'ed afterwards. Now I have a job moving letters and numbers around on a screen. Hard to see why that job is inherently worth more than breaking my bollocks cycling around delivering mail to ungrateful pricks.

If you went to college for 5 years for the express intention of making loadsacash, and now you don't make loadsacash, then the problem is with you. Maybe consider retraining as a postman?

At the end of https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/postman-pat-celebrates-7m-win-with-a-stroll-26718662.html#:~:text=But%20Ireland's%20latest%20multi%2Dmillionaire,National%20Lottery%20headquarters%20in%20Dublin. he does mention considering joining a golf club.

All joking aside, what's your point other than jealousy/elitism? It's an expensive area, a Lexus is an expensive car, and exclusive golf clubs are expensive. So he has money and you don't know how. It's not really any of your business.

my friend turned a garage into an extra large bedroom .he got planning permisson ,put in 4 windows and 2 doors .he did all the work.

it cost him a few grand to buy the materials .i,d prefer to buy a mediocre house with a large garden as there will be space to build and extension ,than a great house with a small garden .its always been the case you can buy a large house in rural area,s for the price of a 1 bed house in dublin. there used to be always old houses for sale in dublin, needs renovation ,modernisation, those houses seem to be all gone.

That’s crazy but 625k feels underpriced.

would have guessed 725-750k sale based on what Ive seen recently.

This guy seems to think that a successful postman delivers post in a Mercedes.