Rochestown site almost as valuable as the house

THERE’S a touch of “here’s one we prepared earlier” about Athlo, a Rochestown home built 30 years ago on a site that is now more valuable than the house itself as ‘deja viewings’ commence in earnest.

The south-facing 1,700 sq ft bungalow alongside the Monastery comes up for sale priced at €650,000: that’s the same price region as a half acre site next door sold just two months ago, when it made €630,000, stopping just shy of the 9% stamp duty threshold.

So, the selling mantra here for the half-acre residential property Athlo, with the same vendor who sold the site and is now trading down to a city suburb, could well be “buy the site and get a house almost for free.”