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92% of lots sold by Allsop... THE BIDDING was brisk at the Allsop Space auction of mostly distressed property in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel yesterday, as 1,600 people packed into the auction room and spilled out into the bar and lobby of the hotel. A total of 97 of the 108 properties sold under the hammer with a further two selling after auction, raising a total of €11.4 million. Around half were cash buyers – 30 per cent less than at previous auctions. A small group of protesters from a group calling themselves the Anti-Eviction Taskforce held a low-key protest outside the hotel. However proceedings came to a brief halt when one protester stood up in front of the auctioneer and warned about the “ill will” that could affect buyers of distressed property in communities. “Don’t bid then,” replied auctioneer Gary Murphy from UK-based Allsop, before thanking the protestor for his “kind words”. Around a third of the lots are apartments, and one of the bargains of the auction was a

Auction Results for the 87 Lots sorted by Lot Number Lots: 1-87 1 Vacant Flat Dublin 1 Sold €148,000 2 Investment Flat Blackrock Sold €270,000 3 Investment Freehold Building Clondalkin Sold €139,000 4 Investment Freehold House Stepaside Sold €146,000 5 Investment Flat Dublin 7 Sold €177,000 6 Vacant Freehold House Castlebar Sold €87,000 7 Vacant Leasehold House Dublin 3 Sold €67,000 8 Investment Flat Dublin 1 Sold €145,000 9 Investment Freehold Building Bray Sold €220,000 10 Vacant Freehold House Stillorgan Sold €280,000 11 Vacant Freehold House Tyrrelstown Sold €129,000 12 Land/Site Blackrock Sold €66,000 13 Vacant Freehold House Thomastown Sold €50,000 14 Investment Freehold House Kilkenny City Sold €440,000 15 Investment Flat Blackrock Sold €285,000 16 Investment Flat Dublin 9 Sold €55,000 17 Investment Freehold Building Drogheda Available €290,000 18 Vacant Flat Arklow Sold €71,000 19 Vacant Flat Dublin 1 Sold €132,000 20 Vacant Freehold House Dublin 4 Sold

TODAY’S Allsop/Space auction in Dublin’s Shelbourne hotel will be an interesting test of the longevity of the mass auction and whether it’s here to stay or a mere passing fad. Savills Ireland is getting in on the act in September with the promise of around 100 investment properties. with low reserves and prime locations in Dublin. Not wanting to be left out, auction specialist Merlin Group – better known for its car auctions – announced its move into residential property earlier this week. It is getting properties from banks and says it already has 40 for its first big auction in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin in early autumn. Allsop/Space might find it hard today to match the drama and impact of their – and the country’s – first – discounted auction back in April, which saw €14.8 million worth of deals struck in just six hours on vastly discounted properties in prime locations. This time around it has 87 distressed properties around the country with reserves as low as €40,000 on

Auction Date: 7th July 2011 Auction Venue: The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin 2   Another Allsop Space Auction of distressed properties coming up next Thursday. Here's the list of whats on offer... Lots: 1-87 Lot Type Location Reserve Price will not exceed this figure 1 Vacant Flat Dublin 1 €142,000 2 Investment Flat Blackrock €202,000 3 Investment Freehold Building Clondalkin €120,000 4 Investment Freehold House Stepaside €102,500 5 Investment Flat Dublin 7 €175,000 6 Vacant Freehold House Castlebar €42,000 7 Vacant Leasehold House Dublin 3 €62,000 8 Investment Flat Dublin 1 €142,000 9 Investment Freehold Building Bray €150,000 10 Vacant Freehold House Stillorgan €275,000 11 Vacant Freehold House Tyrrelstown €97,500 12 Land/Site Blackrock €30,000 13 Vacant Freehold House Thomastown €60,000 14 Investment Freehold House Kilkenny City €410,000 15 Investment Flat Blackrock €222,000 16 Investment Fl

From €25,000 to €1.45m: another distressed auction... AUCTIONS: There’s interest from around the world in next’s week’s big sale DUBLIN’S Shelbourne Hotel is expected to be packed again next Thursday for the second auction of distressed properties to be offered to the highest bidders by auctioneers Allsop/Space. Most of the 87 residential and commercial properties are being sold by financial institutions and receivers. They include 59 houses and apartments, mainly in Dublin, Cork and Waterford, but also in counties ranging from Laois to Donegal. Apartments already rented have been of particular interest to many people who have checked out the online sales catalogue prepared by the Allsop/Space partnership. The site has already had more than 60,000 hits, a figure that is expected to grow to over 100,000 by next Thursday. Just over 14 per cent of the enquiries have come from Ireland but there has been almost an equal level of hits from interested parties in the UK, USA, France, A

Ballsbridge home for under €400,000 in distressed auction... Developer and landlord David Grant will see his former home on Haddington Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 go under the hammer for less than €400,000, a quarter of its original asking price, at the Allsop/Space auction of distressed properties next month. Number 61 Haddington Road failed to sell at auction in 2006 with an advised minimum value of €1.6 million, but now it’s likely to be sold for about a quarter of the price next month. The mid-terrace building is being auctioned ‘‘on the instructions of the mortgagee in possession’’ with a reserve not to exceed €395,000, according to the auction catalogue. Grant’s former home is situated on the south side of Haddington Road, just off Baggot Street. The accommodation is arranged over lower ground, raised ground and first floors beneath a pitched roof. Internally it’s arranged as two-self contained residential units. It is being sold with vacant possession. In October 200

Ailesbury Road pad for sale at 6th of price... A PERIOD house on Dublin's Ailesbury Road will be offered for sale next month at €1.45m -- just a sixth of its boomtime value. The large residence, with one of the city's most desirable addresses, would have been valued at over €10m at the height of the property market. It is being priced at €1.45m in a sale of distressed properties on July 7 next. Another impressive Rathgar property, which is now divided into five self-contained flats, could have reached anything close to €2m at one stage, but has had its reserve set at €495,000. And a home at the foothills of the Dublin Mountains with almost an acre of land has been listed as one with offers from €450,000 -- slashed from more than €1m in 2006. The sales are part of three further auctions of distressed properties lined up for Dublin after the massive run on discounted houses earlier this year. Banks eager to get more properties off their books have turned to auctione

Allsop plans five fire sales a year... THE UK auction house Allsop and its Irish affiliate Space plans to hold up to five distressed property auctions a year following the success of its first auction last Friday when 81 out of 82 lots were sold for a total of €15 million. The next auction is scheduled for July 7th, when 200 lots will be auctioned, including apartments, tenanted shops, farms and houses. According to Space director Stephen McCarthy, his company is being inundated with requests from receivers, banks and individuals who want to sell their property fast. Many of the properties in Friday’s auction were sold by Bank of Scotland Ireland and it’s believe there is plenty more of this stock to sell. These include apartments in the Castleforbes development in the Dublin docklands, as well as units in Dublin 8 and in Castleknock. However, the agency is also considering taking on more agricultural land. One lot, a 55 acre farm in Co Wickow sold particularly well, making €42

The bargain hunters were out in force today in Dublin! It was a busy day at the Shelbourne Hotel where many cut-price homes and properties were sold. Here are the Allsop Auction results: Lot Type Location Reserve Price will not exceed this figure 1 Vacant Flat Temple Bar Sold €126,000 2 Investment Flat Dublin 1 Sold €129,000 3 Investment Flat Dublin 8 Sold €102,000 4 Investment Flat Dublin 8 Sold €159,000 5 Investment Flat Bray Sold €154,000 6 Investment Freehold Building Clifden Sold €141,000 7 Investment Flat Portlaoise Sold €61,000 8 Investment Flat Portlaoise Sold €62,000 9 Investment Freehold Building Roscrea Sold €336,000 10 Vacant Freehold House Dundrum Sold €410,000 11 Vacant Flat Dublin 1 Sold €120,000 12 Vacant Flat Dublin 1 Sold €116,000 13 Investment Flat Dublin 1 Sold €190,000 14 Vacant Flat Dublin 7 Sold €107,000 15 Vacant Freehold House Renmore Sold €332,500 16 Investment Freehold Building Renmore Sold €205,000 17 Investment Flat Dublin 8 Sold €15

Fire-sale auction draws bargain hunters... So many people turned up for an auction of distressed properties in the Shelbourne Hotel today in Dublin that it had to be suspended amid Garda concerns for safety. Some 80 lots, ranging from a Ballsbridge mews to a collection of cut price flats in Portlaoise, are being offered to the highest bidders. The majority of properties are being sold by receivers and include homes in Dublin, Wicklow and Galway as well as small commercial buildings and shops. Such was the interest in the sale that crowds spilled out of the hotel and onto the street. Proceedings had to be suspended for several minutes while non-bidders were asked to leave the main auction room. The venue has seating for 350, with standing room for an additional 500. One lot, an apartment in Portlaoise, was sold to a bidder who was forced to stand on the pavement on St Stephen's Green due to overcrowding. To ease pressure on the hotel, the entire auction is being broadcast

Cut-price homes go under the hammer... Up to 1,000 people are expected to attend today’s auction of distressed properties in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin when some 80 lots, ranging from a Ballsbridge mews to a collection of cut price flats in Portlaoise, will be offered to the highest bidders. The majority of properties are being sold by receivers and include homes in Dublin, Wicklow and Galway as well as small commercial buildings and shops. The lowest priced property is a site in Wicklow town with a reserve of €20,000 while the most expensive is the Dublin 4 mews which is estimated at €600,000. The majority of lots are priced between €35,000 and €150,000 and include flats in the Dublin docklands discounted by over 50 per cent and period homes with large gardens in the Dublin suburbs. The sale is expected to set a new floor for Irish house prices which are widely accepted to have dropped by at least 50 per cent from peak. Today’s prices may indicate an even steeper fall, a

Hundreds of repossessed homes in Ireland to be sold by auction... UK property consultancy Allsop to hold auction in April at Dublin's Shelbourne hotel: Flats in Ireland that could have fetched €150,000 in the Celtic Tiger years are to be put on the market for as little as €25,000 (£21,000) in the country's first ever mass auction of repossessed homes. And, in a sign of how wide the property crash is, the latest item to turn up in liquidation sales in Dublin is a job lot of 15 cranes, including a pair towering over Anglo Irish Bank's half-built headquarters in the city's docklands. "Tower cranes were among the most sought-after heavy plant and machinery 10 years ago," Ricky Wilson of Wilsons Auctions says. "You couldn't buy them quick enough. Now they are left idle for two or three years on sites." He has 15 cranes worth €500,000 going on sale on 26 March, with German, Dutch and Polish buyers expressing interest. But it is the auction