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Do you live in one of the world's friendliest cities? 5 things to know in property this week

Cork, Dublin and Galway all got the nod from Condé Nast Traveler.

ANYONE ON THE real estate ladder knows that the world of property is fast-paced and varied. Having your finger on the pulse 24/7 isn’t always possible.

That’s why each week, we put together a five-minute round up of the week’s biggest stories.

Here’s what’s been making headlines…

1. Three Irish cities voted friendliest in the world

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Great news for anyone living in Cork, Dublin or Galway. All three cities made Condé Nast Traveler’s top 10 friendliest cities list. 

Readers were asked to decide on their favourite cities around the world for the Readers’ Choice Awards Survey. Cork bagged third place, Galway came in at number five, and Dublin got eighth place.

2. New Dunnes Stores branch planned for former Blackrock pub

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Dunnes Stores has submitted plans to open a new store in the former Playwright pub on Blackrock’s Newtownpark Avenue.

The landmark pub closed is currently a TGI Friday’s restaurant owned by Ciaran and Colum Butler, the duo behind the Starbucks franchise in Ireland.

3. High hopes for re-zoning of Dublin city industrial estates

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The council could re-zone some of the city’s older industrial estates to facilitate new housing developments, following the Department of Housing’s recently published draft guidelines.

4. Airbnb accused of turning villages into ‘resorts’

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AirBnB has revealed that a total of 640,000 guests will use the service in Ireland over the summer - amid criticism that the holiday rental company is turning villages into ‘resorts’.

With Ireland’s housing crisis putting pressure on rents, Airbnb and other short-term letting websites are accused of taking much-needed rental stock off the market.

5. Property firm opens Dublin office with over  €1 billion to spend

With a newly opened office in Dublin, global property investment firm, Round Hill Capital has revealed that it has more than €1 billion to spend on student accommodation in Ireland.

John Vaudin is managing director of Round Hill Capital’s Irish operation, which will be based at 12 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, according to Colin Gleeson for The Irish Times.

More: Take a VR tour of a four-bed home 25 minutes from Dublin city centre>

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    May 13th 2016, 10:47 PM

    Probably has 6000 previous convictions .. QUICK .. Someone hand him a 2 year suspended sentence

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    May 14th 2016, 7:33 AM

    manslaughter conviction looming

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    May 13th 2016, 11:56 PM

    It’s got to such a ridiculous situation at this stage that I’m actually (in a weird way), rooting for the Hutch faction. I’d prefer if the Gardai started with the vile Kinahan ‘gang’ first. Once they are locked up, lock up the Hutch associates then.

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    May 14th 2016, 12:45 AM

    Yea and Gerry the formal criminal Hutch too.

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    May 14th 2016, 7:19 AM

    I say a mass celebrity death match out of the way in some warehouse in Dublin.

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    May 14th 2016, 7:24 AM

    These 2 gangsters were on the front page of every newspaper a few weeks back and only now are arrested … I can only assume they have been in a rat hole somewhere because they haven’t been shot already.
    As I write I’m concluding he probably handed himself in as it’s hard to imagine the guards find him before the hutches

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    May 13th 2016, 10:36 PM

    Great news.
    Important news.
    Hopefully this breakthrough will crack the case open and the people who organised the shootings will be brought to justice.

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    May 14th 2016, 12:10 AM

    Well done to the boys in blue

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    May 13th 2016, 10:45 PM

    Da fugh was dat?

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    May 14th 2016, 12:39 AM

    Alan Kelly is the reason we should abandon politics.

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    May 14th 2016, 12:44 AM

    Ah I’m only joking, but how do you stop megalomaniacs from coming to power, or are you supposed to just roll with it.

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    May 13th 2016, 10:40 PM

    Wombs of the world untie!

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    May 13th 2016, 10:37 PM

    Two of them might as well been doing a wedding shoot.

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    May 14th 2016, 12:45 AM

    Loads of commotion on the N32 this evening. Thought it was another shooting

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    May 14th 2016, 1:48 PM

    Seen that myself loads of Garda surrounded at the side of the road, looked very dodgy.

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    May 14th 2016, 3:19 PM

    There were about 14 armed Gardai and they carried out the arrest with precision timing. If the bad guys had have produced a bicycle pump it would have saved the State a fortune ! Job well done !

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    May 14th 2016, 12:16 AM

    I wonder was it the cross-dresser?

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    May 14th 2016, 12:21 AM

    Yes. It’s the guy who started all this.

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    May 13th 2016, 10:37 PM

    Yeah right

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    May 13th 2016, 10:51 PM

    +234 area code.. Not dodgy at all, must be legit

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    May 13th 2016, 11:25 PM

    Probably got a shot on winning streak

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    May 13th 2016, 11:45 PM

    Tough luck Patrick.

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    May 14th 2016, 9:08 PM

    Young Patrick hutch arrested his brother is the deceased brother Gary “2 KNOWN POLICE INFORMERS” + there father so 3!!! The other arrested was aka MAGO gatley a man who could not leave the hutch faction because they knew he had police informed for previous years and they were going to expose them as a known police informer!!!! Time for the old hutch to get onto there HANDLERS to get the lads out of this

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    May 14th 2016, 11:32 AM

    Great news. Take everyone of those rats off the street,, either in cuffs or a bag…

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