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Got €27 million to spare? Five star Adare Manor could be yours

The real estate agent this morning denied that Nama is selling the property.

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THE FIVE-STAR Adare Manor hotel and golf resort in County Limerick has been put on the market with a guide price of between €25 million and €27 million.

The hotel has 62 bedrooms set on 766 acres of parkland on the banks of the Maigue River. There had been speculation that loans linked to the property had been transferred to Nama, and the state’s bad bank was the sale of the hotel.

However, this morning CBRE, which is selling the property, said that Nama was not behind the sale.

The property was originally built in the 19th century as a residence for the Earl of Dunraven, before being acquired by Tom and Judy Kane in 1987, who restored the hotel to its current state.

The architectural features of the hotel include 52 chimneys, one for each week of the year, 75 fireplaces and 365 leaded glass windows. The golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior.

Tom Kane is not listed as a director in any of several companies linked to the management and ownership of Adare Manor and its facilities.

A management buy-out for the hotel, which aimed to alleviate the burden imposed by bank debt, was floated in recent years, although it is unclear if it went through. The precise identity of the vendor is not known at this stage.

The market for hotel sales in Ireland has been accelerating sharply during the year, led by outfits like Brehon Capital Partners, which has purchased the Mount Juliet resort in Kilkenny and Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow.

A report by CBRE earlier this year found that hotel sales in Ireland for the first six months of the year were nearly three times higher than for the same period in 2013, with around €132 million in transactions closed during the period.

Adare Manor is being sold in three lots, with buyers offered the chance of purchasing just the hotel and golf course, the resort and agricultural land connected to it, or the agricultural land alone.

Read: Hotel sales are up by €84 million this year>

Read: Done deal – Mount Juliet resort sold to private equity player for €15 million>

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    Mute Brian Gormley
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 11:31 AM

    If I had €25m I wouldn’t be annoying myself trying to run a hotel

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    Mute Looky here
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 11:16 AM

    The chimney cleaning contract alone would be more than my annual mortgage!!

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    Mute Mickey finn
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 1:02 PM

    Does the 27 million per room per night Include breakfast

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    Mute ✨TOBI✨
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 12:08 PM

    Lovely spot but the traffic in adare on any given day a nightmare.

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    Mute Cpm
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 11:36 AM

    Let me check down the back of the couch

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    Mute Thomas Maher
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 11:47 AM

    While you’re checking back of couch. I’ll count what’s in the pennies bottle. We could be business partners.:-))

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    Sep 3rd 2014, 12:22 PM

    I have a jar of coins at home I’ve been saving for a year. I can be the investor

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    Mute Ronan Morris
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 5:02 PM

    Great concierge in the Manor… Roger, take a bow… also, one of the best residents bars in the country

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    Sep 3rd 2014, 10:58 PM

    Absolutely. And before him, John.

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    Mute conor hickey
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 11:54 AM

    It was a private residence until 1987 and then converted to a hotel.
    It was not a Hegel before 1987.

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    Mute conor hickey
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    Sep 3rd 2014, 11:54 AM

    Hotel

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    Sep 3rd 2014, 12:13 PM

    I’ll not make a comment about my mortgage this time. I got so many red thumbs last time. :-)

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    Mute ciara daly
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    Sep 4th 2014, 12:09 AM

    this baby will defo pay for itself, hope there’s no queue outside though that’s a deal breaker.

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    Sep 3rd 2014, 9:42 PM

    Won’t someone front me the cash? I’d devote my life and my childrens’ lives to it….True elegance, amazing Irish history of the Earls of Dunraven. The best manor house in Ireland.

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