Skylark - Portmarnock

In most cases, until a development is fully finished and the management company is up and running then the developer is acting as the management company, in some cases they don't make an effort to collect a management fee until it's handed it over to said management company. If you check your purchasing contract you can see if there is a yearly management fee.

before signing the contracts I asked the estate agents agent if there was a management fee and they said there wasn't!

Portmarnock and the surrounding area is one of the main reasons for buying in Skylark in my view - the place is very well connected, beautiful and has lots of great amenities. The flip side of being well connected is the Train line and the Airport, both of which are really handy but of course come with noise, but really it's not a dealbreaker - nowhere is perfect. If noise sensitivity is an issue, probably best to look elsewhere, especially with the price point.

Hidden costs? Well they are new builds, so you need to buy all furniture, flooring, blinds and washer/dryers etc. Generally they are really well made and cheap to run, warm all year round. A lot of them have large high pitched attics that can be converted too.

Pricing - the price point has increased since the last few phases, so that's a good thing. Most areas on train lines etc will hold their value.

Hope that helps - feel free to PM me here if you want anything else

Thanks @MArk2486 :) Might PM !

No, we get that :) We know we will be fine … at least with the planes! The dart tracks, we need to understand better how close we will be and hear it to put mind at peace.

What road are you on and can let you know, we are recent enough so could potentially help if near by.

Congrats :)

Had a look where it is, its not too far from us (where we don't hear the train at all) however you are closer so not 100% certain

Thats where we are also looking at :)

Cool! We actually didn't have the possibility to choose a location of the house, we liked the planning and it wasn't a lot of options (everything was booked very fast). But I definitely see the advantages of this road.

Centra is always a rip off, there's a lidl in walking distance though which is handy, and a Dunnes on the other end of Portmarnock.

Tbh with all the developments, a third supermarket wouldn't go a miss. I think that's the case for most developments on the north side, if there's no more supermarkets built, there will be alot more empty shelves.

Baldoyle has had huge development in recent years and there are plans for alot more, there is only one lidl. Howth is getting another 700 units and doesn't have a supermarket.

The dart as well will get even more congested.

I am in one of the previous Skylark phases and we do not have a management fee, never had. It was something I asked about very early on as I believe The Links across the road does. Maybe there is something in the apartments, but not in the existing houses in Skylark.

This is amazing thank you. I'm buying in a future phase and it's great to see the progress.

Also: I've recently received that a new (and last) phase is launching soon. Does anyone have details of it?