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Ireland's Daft Property Scene - More Dublin House Prices Slashed...

Desperation as luxury home prices halved... A DEVELOPER of luxury homes just 11km from Dublin Airport has been forced to slash the €1.4m sales price in half in a bid to attract buyers. Detached five-bed houses at Lynnwood in Ballyboughal, in north Co Dublin, originally went on the market for €1.4m. The 3,013-sq-ft (280sq-m) houses were first reduced by €450,000 in a bid to attract purchase-shy buyers. Then on Tuesday, the price was cut back another €100,000 to €850,000. By late yesterday, developers Area Building dropped the price by another €100,000 to €750,000. The move to cut the price in half came days after leading developer Taggart was forced into administration. Selling agent Paul Tobin said the homes were fully fitted out to a high standard. He insisted that the developer had spent €1.1m building each of the houses in the small scheme, once land values and construction costs were added together. Mr Tobin said the developer had been trying to sell the houses for months and was n