sharper:
I know a few people like this. Several foreign holidays a year, horribly overpriced PPR, second “investment” property, generally spend money like it’s going out of fashion. They’re also the first to complain about how desperately unfair everything is.
I’d say your great friends.
People can be perfectly nice, intelligent and all that but terrible with money. The problem (as we all know) is that Irish society has upturned all logic to ensure that people who are the worst with money win every time therefore people who are bad with money not only have no incentive to learn they’d be foolish to learn!
sharper:
People can be perfectly nice, intelligent and all that but terrible with money. The problem (as we all know) is that Irish society has upturned all logic to ensure that people who are the worst with money win every time therefore people who are bad with money not only have no incentive to learn they’d be foolish to learn!
But at least you’re there to teach them sharper!
pa1
March 22, 2010, 12:52pm
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fedorov:
Homemaker:
‘The spirit of gracious living’
That was the guff plastered all over the ‘breakfast at tiffany’s’ style advertising hoardings outside the Grange, how I envy those gracious living professionals working 2 jobs to scrape together the repayments on a 1 bed apartment
There are families living on half that girl’s salary, scraping by, paying for kids, doing without
I don’t know whether that article is designed to make us feel sorry for the cubs or to enrage us
How can this lady on 75k not afford her stupid grange shoebox. “It has now become too much of a struggle and a stress to pay for”.
“It was only a one bedroom apartment she could afford” - even for that money she could have bought a house if she had not been seduced by the spirit of gracious living.
It looks like is an exercise by the newspapers in helping to removing all guilt from their conscience for helping to chain people up for 30-40 years. They are going “look, these smart people didnt see it coming, neither did we, or anyone”. It reminds me of the FF style of “it was nobodys fault” / “it was everyones fault” / “it was lehmans” / “it was international factors” / “can i have a 10k lottery win please and artist exemption for my autobiography”
https://atoast2toast.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/grange_select.jpg?w=300&h=168
atoast2toast.com/2009/08/04/sexy-time/
Baily Point in Salthill Galway has loads of pretentious pictures of well to do smug young couples generally looking like assholes. Can’t find the pics online.
Would be nice to dig that out for posterity.
Every town in ireland has pretentious smug young couples looking like assholes - none is worse than dundrum town centre
Salthill to me is rain, chips shops, poker machines, that weird castle front niteclub and not:
https://img279.imageshack.us/img279/3278/dscf10647jj.jpg
Bailey Point combines a mix of commercial and residential units in the much sought after Salthill stretch, which offers harbour views close to city living. It replaces a hotel, two bed and breakfasts and some private housing, and is located in the heart of Salthill, which is becoming increasingly residential.
The commercial part of the complex will include a new restaurant, bar, music venue, nightclub, gymnasium and ten screen cinema. Negotiations are ongoing for tenders for these units. The residential units will comprise of 98 one, two, and three-bedroom apartments and four penthouses with views of Galway bay. One and two-bedroom apartments will range from 44 to 56 square metres (475 to 600 square feet) in size.
Prices will be in the region of £150,000 (including underground parking) for a one-bedroom to £160,000 for a two-bedroom and upwards to £345,000. The inclusion of parking in the selling price is seen as a significant bonus according to Brian Clancy of Heskin Auctioneers, who is handling this development. Within Galway city parking spaces are becoming a rare entity. “We are marketing these units on the basis of the location, which has a lot of attractions and is looking over the sea. These units are aimed at the holiday market,” Heskin said.
there are some court cases and lynn was involved boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=55608505
archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2001/07/01/story307350928.asp
Ya mean this place?:
https://img279.imageshack.us/img279/7760/dscf10636by.jpg
interesting how the same names keep turning up when “delusions” start to crumble…
Although Tony Quinn’s Educo system claims it can open the door to worldly success and increase turnover, not everyone is so successful. It was recently reported that the group of companies owned by Galway-born builder Brian Cunningham owed First Active €29m. Cunningham’s group had been involved in several high-profile developments. He owns Salthill Properties, which developed the €30m Bailey Point Project in Salthill. First Active foreclosed on the group and now Cunningham is suing them. Cunningham had gone on a Tony Quinn seminar and, to the distress of his family, had become very committed to Quinn’s philosophy…
dialogueireland.org/dicontent/media/tq02.doc or go to dialogueireland.com and search for TQ.
pa1
March 22, 2010, 2:54pm
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I don’t see the Alison O’Reardon types going for fine dining meals and sipping champagne on that picture, but they are there.
Mt. St. Annes and Bloomfield are both lovely developments in fairness. (Price aside.) Can’t speak as to the Grange.
roc
March 23, 2010, 5:06pm
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Nice indeed. But to get a better idea of where prices for these kind of units are likely to end up, watch this video and work out the kind of labour and material inputs involved in their construction. - Imo, when *all *of the air is taken out of the property bubble, labour and material inputs will be all left to us to try and tangibilise value. Even then, buyers will be driving hard bargains.
EDIT - I would also say that exceptional design inputs will be highly valued when we come out the other side (likely, even more so than they are currently). And exceptional craftsmanlike inputs will be highly valued also. ie. similar rules to those currently applied to mass production of manufactured goods will apply also to housing and other property development.
