A refurbished and extended house on Leinster Road in Rathmines has had its asking price reduced from €3.2 million to €3 million, having been on the market since the autumn.

Number 107 Leinster Road is a six-bedroom, 285 square metre house, with large front and back gardens, and a courtyard on one of the best known roads in Rathmines.

The owners bought the property in 2006, and turned a lean-to extension into a two-storey annex of extra accommodation, adding it to the villa-style house, so that it appears to have been part of the original building.

At the front of the house, a large gravelled area provides plenty of parking off this busy road. Inside, the hall features the original wide-plank pine boards that have been sanded and varnished, as well as crisply finished cornicing detail and ceiling roses.

Two grand reception rooms lead off the hall level. In the front room, the original sash window has some of its original glass panes and a working set of painted timber shutters. Wide plank oak flooring has been used in the two reception rooms, and each has large marble fireplaces, high ceilings and detailed plasterwork.

A door from the rear reception room leads to one of the new parts of the house. This room is laid out as a bedroom, with glass doors leading onto a small roof terrace surrounded by a glass balcony. The room to the front has been turned into a large bathroom.

A guest toilet is on the first floor return, along with a third reception room at the back of the house, with two windows overlooking the back garden and side courtyard.

The bedrooms and kitchen/ living space are all downstairs, with the kitchen and living space housed in a large extension floored in polished cream marble.

The kitchen has unusual iroko fitted units and a marble worktop, and the area opens onto the back garden and the side courtyard.

The long back garden has plenty of mature trees to the side of the lawn and rear vehicle access through a gate. A central path runs down the garden to the back gate, with lawn and trees on either side. Neighbours have built a home office at the back of an adjoining garden.

Details from the agents on 01-6333700.

Commercial briefs: Tipperary site, Sunday Business Post, 25 May 2008

The former Erin Foods facililty in Thurles, Co Tipperary, is on the market with Colliers Jackson-Stops. The site extends to 8.5 acres and is zoned B1, primarily retail and commercial development, in the Thurles and Environs Development Plan 20022008. Uses permitted under this zoning include local neighbourhood services, offices (district) and shops (local), while uses open for consideration include hospital, hotel, residential, and retain warehouse.

It is accessed via the Slievenamon Road directly off Liberty Square, the town's main commercial street. It has around 240 metres of frontage onto the road and is bounded to the north by the Thurles Shopping Centre, which is anchored by Dunnes, to the west and south by residential development, and to the east by the river Suir. The agents are guiding in excess of €750,000 per acre and are at 01-6333700.

Commercial property still expanding, Sunday Business Post, 25 May 2008

O'Callaghan Properties will lodge an application in the coming weeks for a new office development on Anderson's Quay extending to 14,864 square metres. The proposal for the €150 million development on an existing 2.5-acre site, provides for 32,516 square metres of office space.

"Some larger occupiers may have found it difficult to choose Cork as a location in the past, because it didn't have a lot of big office accommodation," said Nick Coveney, director, Colliers Jackson-Stops.

"Now it has, which will be a huge boost for Cork. Until recently, the market was suburban; now it is like Dublin with both city-centre and suburban space."

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