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ALLSOP SPACE AUCTIONEERS has announced a record-breaking auction planned for next month with lots including a Christmas tree farm in Wicklow and a golf course in Kildare.
Some 150 properties will come under the hammer on 10 December at the RDS in Dublin.
The lots are composed primarily it commercial and investment properties and have a combined reserve of €20 million – by far the largest ever recorded in Ireland.
Along with a raft of residential and commercial properties, there are also a few out of the ordinary lots that may catch your fancy if you have a few hundred thousand euro lying around.
In Redcross, Wicklow, the Christmas tree farm at Ballinvalley is up for auction with a reserve of €45,000. The farm is currently planted with coniferous trees with the land extending to approximately 19.3 hectares. Think of the festive possibilities…
This is not actually the farm at Ballinvalley but it’s probably not far off (Image: Shutterstock).
Ashford Fair Filling Station in Wicklow, with a forecourt, shop and garden centre, has a reserve of €250,000 to €300,000.
There is also a 27 bedroom hotel up for grabs with a three-bed house attached and sea views. Included are a bar, conservatory, residents’ drawing room, restaurant, TV room, snooker room, staff accommodation and a tennis court.
(Google Streetview)
Woodlands Golf Course, with its 18 hole course on 127 acres contains changing facilities, a members’ bar, offices, a pro shop and a kitchen, with a reserve prices of €625,000 to €675,000.
(Image: Google Earth)
The full catalogue for the 10 December auction contains:
Allsop Space Director of Auctions, Robert Hoban said the level of interest in having properties sold through the company’s auctions is at “an unprecedented level”.
“We believe that the auction process we have now featured on several occasions has become so successful because they are seen to be honest, open, transparent, accountable and speedy, with good results for vendor and purchaser,” he added.
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Ok Allsop guys……the clock is ticking on that christmas tree farm! Just sayin’
Maybe a hospital in wicklow could buy the Christmas tree farm and use the profits to top up the Christmas bonuses for the management team
Great news I love these auctions everybody wins. I really hope 2014 is the year of evictions of undesirables so decent people can buy these properties
Kenneth
Good to see you got out of bed early today to start your trolling.
Goodman Kenneth, A new day and a new insult.
Seems the pot calling the kettle….carcu
Tony
If you dont mind could you please expand for the dumb amongst us, am I the pot for being up early or are you calling me a troll?
I hear the DAA bought St Margarets golf course for 1.9m, so woodlands is pretty cheap
Why would the DAA buy a golf course, unless its to make the que times at the tees longer?
They want the land Forest Little is on for expansion, so they bought it as a sweetner
You obviously haven’t played woodlands! Steve
Why, is it not good?
It’s not the worst, but I guess we are really spoilt for golf courses.
The course at woodlands is OK. It doesn’t have a decent sized car park and the front 9 is on the other side of a main road though.
45,000 for 19 hectares? Great value if it could be bought for that.
Not a bother with woodlands, the hurling club have now left there gates open for car park over flow. Be a same if it didn’t reopen as a golf course because at the moment the whole club is being run by volunteers. The banks were offered 650000 by a local business man and turned it down!!
I wonder will the DDI mobsters be out in force to disrupt business?
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