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THE HOUSE-HUNTERS who decided to start queuing on Tuesday afternoon for a home at a new development in Swords, north Dublin, were celebrating this afternoon, after ‘Millers Glen’ opened for business as planned.
Megan O’Shaughnessy, pictured here with partner Robert Delaney, was first in the queue on Tuesday.
The line continued to grow during the week, in part due to media attention — leading some to observe that the scenes were worryingly reminiscent of those witnessed at the height of the Celtic Tiger housing bubble.
The queue earlier this week. [Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland]
Sixty newly-built two, three and four-bed homes priced between €240,000 and €400,000 were on sale at the Swords complex.
The estate was built by Gannon Homes, which is owned by prominent property developer Gerry Gannon, who was part of the so-called ‘Maple 10′ group of investors allegedly given hundreds of millions by Anglo Irish Bank to re-invest in the bank as its share price plummeted.
The houses were being sold on a first-come, first-served basis, and O’Shaughnessy and Delany secured what they wanted in a three-bedroom semi-d this afternoon.
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Delighted they got the house they wanted… Too many begrudgers in this country! If they wanted to queue out to be sure they got a house which I’m sure they worked & saved very hard to do so then fair play to them.
Totally agree with you there Laura. They worked and saved hard and got What they deserve. Not like the leeches of society who think the state should support them with every benefit available plus to hand them the keys of a house!!!
Early 20s and working in retail yet managed to save 30k.
LOL.
I’m sure mommy and daddy forked out the brunt of it. Let’s hope things stay steady in the retail trade.
@Good news caravan
How do you know they both work in retail?
Looks like there was only a small number of viewers and they only sold a few out of 60. Far from selling out, no need to lose your sleep.
The whole queuing thing was a massive overreaction or a stunt.
It was reported in the times during the week. Red thumbs away you clowns, it won’t change the fact I’m right (as usual)
Stunt by Developers and Auctioneers
Eileen Charters:
That’s never going to change. There will always be a social welfare system in this country regardless what you shriek and cry foul about. Like it or not, it’s here to stay! It looks like the Gov’t will soon need to raise stamp duty to deter the celtic-tiger type of addiction to property buying!
As someone who has relied on social welfare I find your comments offensive, I am not a scrounger, I worked where I could but my contract was steadily reduced until I had no choice but to sign on or starve. I am now in full time employment thankfully, but the idea that all those on social welfare are scroungers and wastes of space is outdated and disgraceful. Maybe helping those people access education and supports will allow them access to jobs where they can contribute instead of stigmatising them.
Agree 100% Ben. There are too many ‘snobs’ that denounce people in social housing.
Eileen Charters’ theory can be debunked as follows:
- social housing is not simply a matter of handing over the “keys of a house” – the tenant rents the house from the relevant council or at least until he/she can afford to buy it.
- people who are financially vulnerable should not be denounced as “leeches”.
I don’t begrudge them anything. If they want to lock themselves in to a lifetime of debt at the worse possible moment, good luck to them.
Actually I take that back. I begrudge them that fully-paved front garden when I’ve had to now my lawn for the past eight years. This new generation don’t know they’re born.
Well said
Stamp Duty should be increased.
Awww look at them, happy mortgage holders :)
Another subject to talk about in their lives
At least they don’t expect the state to keep them , fair okay to them and wishing them all the luck they deserve
Kate:
That’s here to stay, like it or lump it!
Ahh, look at the hope in their faces. It won’t be long now until they’re arguing over the bills and the dishes.
mortgage lending needs to be curtailed to prevent any real-estate bubble.
They went from sleeping rough since Tuesday to owning a house by Saturday…..
Good luck the new house folks…..
We went sale agreed on a house first week of August and still waiting to sign contracts. 5 days to owning a house sounds great to me!
Seeking, best of luck to you as well
But where do you draw the line?
Do the mortgage lenders know they took 4 days off work to queue? They’re a liability I tell ya!!
No actually I worked nights last week. Happy out with my amazing house thanks :)
Heard you on the radio Megan – Couldn’t fault your logic, delighted for you, queuing is done & it’s your house for life now and what’s it to you what the smalltime folk say…..
Best of luck to ye ;)
Fair play& best of luck
Enjoy it and we’ll done. Don’t mind the shams who won’t get of their ar*e to change the TV, never mind the it lives.
Fair play Megan enjoy it.
When’s the housewarming Megan ?
Careful Megan… I saw a movie like this once…
Council got the 9 houses off the plans. One of the papers yesterday called the whole thing a hype or a marketing masterpiece
Congrats Megan and I hope this isn’t the first housing estate to be sold on a first come first serve basis!
Best of luck with your new house :)
Good luck Megan and Robert xx
Will you be demanding Taxpayers bail you out if something goes wrong?
and in 6 months time they’ll want to be bailed out, blaming the banks for giving them the money…
And Daft.ie oh I mean *the Journal* have no vested interest in getting people back on that hamster wheel
What “vested interests” are you even referring to?
Sounds like its the developers who are ones really celebrating…..
Fire up the jet skis.
Along with NAMAD too.
that’s why house buying needs to be deterred.
How many people actually queued?
5
The house buyer, her partner and three of their mates.
Thankfully everyone has learned the lessons of the last bubble. Oh wait…
Wow it’s a superb looking house
In a new and upcoming development with lots of facilities around you.
Lots of kids and
Family’s starting off.
Today It’s a house.
Tomorrow a home and a castle for life.
Well done you and enjoy the ride.
Ride is right
John,
surely you realize that economies undergo cycles. Are you really suggesting it’s all hunky-dory?
Fair play to them… you really want something,put your head down and go get it. Typical begrugery comments in this country. it should be apart of facts about ireland on Wikipedia… wishing ye all the best in your new home
How many of the 60 houses ended up being sold today?
Good luck for the next years in Debt.
Shocking amount of money for a house of that size. 2 beds for 240k?? Feck that.
If it was lower, you’d be complaining about a bigger real-estate bubble.
Two or three bed for €240,000. That’s extortion , a few miles out the road they’ve got four bed detached for that type of money.
All the hype has these people actually thinking they are getting value for money. Did they que for a week to find that there were 60 houses being sold with only 5 in the que.
The Council bought 9 of the houses according to another publication.
Convenient location to the recently approved planning permission for the construction of one of the largest mosques in Europe on land owned by the same developer.
The mosque is approved for clongriffen in dublin 17
felicity i think you will find that the mosque you are talking about is planned for Clongriffin, Donaghmede would you have an issue with the mosque opening beside you?
I would have a problem with a mosque no matter where its built because I believe in a secular society.
Distance not postcode
You must have a guilt complex to ask that ?
No mosques in a secular society?
Nonsense.
Nobody has to go to a church, mosque, temple or whatever.
If people want to go to their funhouse of choice, it’s nobody else’s business.
If they then want to bring their religion out into wider society, that’s a problem.
No comment time will decide
Explain red thumbs
Your last line is my point Griska.
They will need a few bits and pieces for the house, I got them a bottle opener
By the looks of the bottle of prosecco in the dudes hand that corkscrew will come in handy. I’d say he is still trying to get the cork out of the bottle. Oh the anti climax of it all !!!
Maybe a shovel might suffice. Lol.
People asking “were they got the money!!!” They get there money from working day and night and saving like crazy! I’m so happy for them! “Saying the the banks not ask why they were out of work queing for 5 days! They worked nights and swapped and changed so one of them was always in the que! Well done guys I’m over the moon for you’s
Same old, same old. History repeating itself. And the only winners? The money men and the rich.
In the mid 1960′s I was given a lift home by a teacher who expressed his combined feelings of helplessness and happiness that had befallen him as a shock wave that he had just signed up for a mortgage of £7k and his abject fear that he would never be able to pay it back!
Now, after we’ve all stopped laughing, can we please agree that there has to be a better way than this if we are to to all assert our equal rights as human beings OR ARE WE ALL TRULY FECKED BY A FAILED MERRY-GO-ROUND OF A RUBBISH SYSTEM?
Accountancy is the cancer of society.
I agree with your sentiments but calling accountancy the cancer of society!? Do you know what accountancy is? What is your alternative method of financial measurement?
Is that you glen
Semi-D, hehehe.
Maybe I should grow up :-(
Great little country isn’t it. This couple pay a quarter million for a gaff and they’ll probably have a bunch of asylum scammers and their brood of megaphone headed little sh*ts living next door. Or they might get lucky and it’ll only be some home grown entitlement junkie with 5 kids from 4 different fathers.
The tone of this story is gas… you’d never know this site was owned by Daft at all.
Here’s some perspective…
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/crowds-fail-to-materialise-at-launch-of-swords-development-1.1920564
“About two dozen people queue to buy houses at Millers Glen”
Yep, the “Good Times” are definitely back alright!!
Well if it is true thast the council bought 9 of the houses you can wipe 20,000 off the price of the remaining stock. After all the hype very few buyers showed up. Could it just be that many young people simply are not in a position to buy a home.
But the celtic tiger started off similar but quickly grew….. Do we really want to go back to the Debt years?
I would love to know where they all got the money seeing as the banks are not leading .Does any one know ?
The banks are lending. Just not the amounts seen back in the boom.
it’s called regulation – something which was lacking during previous times.
Stanford. Mind your own business they didn’t ask you for anything go back behind your net curtains
Should be a ban on the media reporting this. It’s just making people worried about getting on the ladder and inflating prices again and taking out big mortages.
Lot of the media have vested interests. Daft is thejournal. Myhome owned by Irish times
Yeah but there won’t always be good times gerard.
Worked hard payed over the odds prices on houses over priced like the ff era
Suckers!
They will need a few bits and pieces for the house, I got them a bottle opener
Spose it depends on how you define ‘paid off’. I’d argue it didn’t.
Keep it going MEDIA hype it up again like you did before
maybe tougher regulation would eliminate that “media hype”.
Well done guys!!!! So sad to c all the judgmental people on this writing negative comments about to honest hard working people they don’t even knoWellw !!! They must just hate to c anyone get on in life and do well so to he’ll with use!!! Well done again meg n rob n don’t even explain your self’s to them dopes use know d truth n know how hard use worked now enjoy your beautiful home
The real fools here are the people who think they are getting value for money. This is about hype by developers and learning from the past. If people can’t learn they deserve the noose they put on their necks.
They are young now wait till they have kids in a 2 bedroom house,they will be sorry then the banks again don’t care about young people all they care about is there huge salaries and bonuses don’t be fooled into these small houses…
Not begrudging fair play to them, but did all 60 houses sell out today? Would love to know as I’m fed up of the media hype, what is actually going on isn’t necessarily happening on the ground and the media are just fueling another bubble
If they did we would have heard about it already as sherry fitz would have the press pushing the story.
The Irish Times were a bit more restrained in declaring it Mission Accomplished, the queue did not seem to live up to the hype. But I think the one sided reporting and the fact that this caused such a storm should mean that we should see a similar tactic of first come first served from other agents in the near future.
Right what are we going to name this Tiger… .. The Celtic Pussy
Free houses i would of qued also if i had known.ya snooze ya loose i guess.
I’m still waiting for Gerry gannon to put a surface on my road with a house I bought 9 years ago surely it’s paid for now with the management fee I give him every month!!!
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12 people turned up….its hardly news worthy…. The government had a spin via RTE
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