Listing of the Day
Location: Ballsbridge, Dublin
Price: €1.85 million (US$2 million)
This brand-new apartment with its own designated wine room is in the private gated Lansdowne Place development in Dublin’s fashionable Ballsbridge neighborhood.
Lansdowne Place is located in the affluent Dublin 4 area, Ireland’s most expensive postal code, said listing agent David Rhatigan, of Sherry Fitzgerald. “Dublin 4 is like our Beverly Hills, our Rodeo Drive, with the most sought-after homes.”
The affluent suburb of Ballsbridge is an “exclusive part of Dublin 4, 10 minutes from the city center,” he said.
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The 215-unit Lansdowne Place “is in a league of its own,” Rhatigan said. “There is nothing else in Ireland to compete with it.”
The residences in the new development include one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, penthouses and duplex townhouses, according to the Lansdowne Place website.
“We’re 80% sold, with 154 units occupied,” Rhatigan said. “We’re now fully completed, on the last stretch.”
About 15% of the buyers are investors looking to rent out the unit and “maybe move into it down the line,” he said.
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“We have a lot of international buyers, a lot of wealthy Irish businessmen and women, a lot of people who are living in the country and using it as a pied-a-terre,” he said.
The site was originally the Botanic Gardens for Trinity College Dublin, and all of the buildings are named for renowned Irish botanists, he said.
The two-bedroom Residence 2L, which is in the Harvey building, features an open-plan kitchen and living and dining areas with fold-back glass doors that open to the sunroom, according to the listing. Design details include hardwood floors, floor-to-ceiling windows, marble bathrooms and stone countertops.
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The wine room features a wine rack and a tasting space, according to the listing. “This area also lends itself to being the ideal office/study or at home gym/fitness room.”
Stats
The 2,270-square-foot home has two bedrooms, two full bathrooms and one partial bathroom.
Amenities
The two-story, 6,500-square-foot Residents’ Club offers concierge services, a lounge and library, a meeting room, a cinema room, a private dining room with a kitchen, a sauna, a steam room, a fitness studio and individual treatment rooms. Private parking is located in the basement and accessible from the street level.
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Neighborhood Notes
“We’re surrounded by embassies,” Rhatigan said. “The new American embassy is moving in next door.”
The city center can be reached within eight minutes on the nearby DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) or within a 30-minute walk along Shelbourne Road to reach the “city’s finest shopping, restaurant and cultural venues,” according to the listing. It’s about a 30-minute drive to the Dublin Airport.
Agents: David Rhatigan, Sherry Fitzgerald, and Kate Evans, Savills International