Skylark - Portmarnock

Thanks for getting back to me. Yes I really don't think we're super sensitive to noise & reckon we'll get used to it fairly quickly as with the road noise in our current apartment. Good to hear the experience of current residents echoing the same. How are you enjoying living in the area? Everything bar the flight path seems great to us.

Did anyone get a quote to convert the attic with a stairs and velux window? Just looking over figures now and I'm wondering if I could factor in the cost. A ballpark cost would be much appreciated and maybe say if the quote includes an ensuite or just a single room.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks bilbot79. It would add a lot of space so hopefully I can budget for it.

Hey everyone, we’re heading to an open viewing next weekend for the next launch of properties in skylark. Never been to one of these before so we’re just wondering how these sort of things work? Is it a case that we go on the day and have a couple of days to think about it and get back to the agent or is it incredibly competitive as in we would need to be paying booking deposit there and then on the day and confirming the exact property type we want etc? Any specific documents we need to have on the day? Any advice at all is appreciated, thanks in advance!

No idea how it will work now but when we bought here 5 years ago, we had to queue up the night before, we got a ticket that evening and didn't see the showhouse (apartment) until the following day. We then picked what number we wanted and had to go give them all our details and had a certain time to transfer the deposit or lose the property. Good luck.

Thanks - I'd probably end up spending mad money on extras so might be a blessing in disguise.😂

Apparently most of what was available were gone yesterday and there's a cancellation list in place.

Hi all!
Yesterday I found the article “Lone Star is close to agreeing to selling most of its Irish residential property development business, Quintain Ireland, to fellow Texas-based private-equity firm TPG.”

I find it a bit worrying as I already paid the deposit and now we are working on the contract with solicitors but after reading this news I suppose that these changes could probably affect the current phase (especially the deadlines of the release) or even the whole project Skylark itself.

What do you think about this change? Could it be something serious or we shouldn’t be worrying ?

Ohh, that’s good, I remember these houses, it really gives hope and it’s easier to track the progress :)

Unfortunately, we cannot see if the construction works have been started on our street (Skylark Place) because it’s too far from the show house :(

Hi!
As far as I see, last two weeks (it was a viewing previous Saturday as well) they have been trying to sell the last 4 houses (as on the screenshot). First weekends after the announcement of the new phase everything was reserved but not sold, and then during a first week people were refusing to buy (maybe they changed their mind) or they didn’t put the deposit on time and etc that’s how they still have some available units.

100% Agree, they are. But in all fairness, they are crazy everywhere in Dublin at the moment and it doesn't seem that is going to change any time soon. At least those ones are brand new with an excellent BER rate + the location -in my opinion- is great.

True they are crazy everywhere rn. There's a house in Baldoyle that went for 120K over asking last month.

Is there a management fee in the Skylark?

No management fee that I am aware of

Same here. We asked for this for the Siskin and Petrel to have something solid to compare with and were told that it wasn't available.