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Blue Horseshoe · **Joined:** Jun 25, 2006 **Posts:** 2857

Story (or press release, you decide) from The Journal.ie 22nd Oct 2012

The property expert said that within the last 18 months they have sold 3 houses to ex-pats in one terrace alone in Blackrock

Blue Horseshoe

slasher · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:46 pm

Sunday Business Post on 21st Oct 2012

johnnyone234 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:55 pm

This from last week
Looking at it objectively foreigners see relative value/yield and relative price stability

Quote:

Brits benefit from price collapse over the Irish Sea
Plummeting house values and the pound's strength has attracted UK buyers to Ireland, reports Richard Way

Brits with a soft spot for the Emerald Isle and migrants ready to move back home are taking advantage of rock bottom property prices and the weaker euro to snap up bargain homes in Ireland, the likes of which most could never afford in the UK.

Property values in Ireland are deemed to have bottomed out this year after crashing by 50 per cent or more from the market's peak in 2007. By the first half of 2012, the price of a dream cottage in the Irish countryside grew increasingly attractive to UK buyers thanks to a fall in strength of the euro against sterling.

http://www.independent.co.uk/property/h ... 19240.html

kennyb3 · **Joined:** Mar 3, 2010 **Posts:** 1116

Rock bottom prices, do they not read the pin? I love their optimism

lord vader · **Joined:** Jul 6, 2006 **Posts:** 1962

kennyb3 wrote:

Rock bottom prices, do they not read the pin? I love their optimism

ah its never been a better time to buy. All the ballsy guys are buying now while us useless eaters sit on the sidelines

dolanbaker · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:04 pm

kennyb3 wrote:

Rock bottom prices, do they not read the pin? I love their optimism

Relative to what could be had for the same money in many parts of the UK

mocame · **Joined:** Jul 27, 2011 **Posts:** 416

Blue Horseshoe wrote:

Story (or press release, you decide) from The Journal.ie 22nd Oct 2012

Quote:

The property expert said that within the last 18 months they have sold 3 houses to ex-pats in one terrace alone in Blackrock

Blue Horseshoe

That estate agent (if of course he is telling the truth) must be referring to Prince Edward Terrace, Blackrock. Four houses have sold there in the last 12- 15 months. This is the latest one:
http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochu ... in/1852841

BoyRacer · **Joined:** Jul 26, 2009 **Posts:** 10079

It's not out of place there are many Irish who emigrated decades ago now retiring. Britain had the post WW II baby boom and there are even people with no connection to Ireland retiring and moving here. I've met quite a few of them in the course of my travels down the country. I'm usually configuring internet access or getting their computers up and running so they can keep in touch with their families in the UK, Australia, US or Canada or even their grand kids in SE Asia.

JohnnyTheFox · **Joined:** Oct 20, 2010 **Posts:** 1267

It's a sad reflection on editing standards at the SBP and The Journal that the school boy error of referring to an 'ex-pat' makes it to print (or web page). The actual word is expatriate. Abbreviating it to expat is acceptable, if lazy, but sticking in an unnecessary hyphen is unforgivable. Sorry for the rant but it really annoys me because it perpetuates the common misunderstanding that expat is actually an abbreviation of ex-patriot, implying that those of us to whom the label applies are somehow traitors to our home countries.

mr_anderson · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:46 pm

JohnnyTheFox wrote:

It's a sad reflection on editing standards at the SBP and The Journal that the school boy error of referring to an 'ex-pat' makes it to print (or web page). The actual word is expatriate. Abbreviating it to expat is acceptable, if lazy, but sticking in an unnecessary hyphen is unforgivable. Sorry for the rant but it really annoys me because it perpetuates the common misunderstanding that expat is actually an abbreviation of ex-patriot, implying that those of us to whom the label applies are somehow traitors to our home countries.

Maybe they used to be called 'Pat', but subsequently changed their names ?

namascama · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:59 pm

The brits who have gone to France and Spain to retire in their droves are usually seeking warm weather and a brilliant health service. They won't find it here. They'd be better off staying put.

BoyRacer · **Joined:** Jul 26, 2009 **Posts:** 10079

namascama wrote:

The brits who have gone to France and Spain to retire in their droves are usually seeking warm weather and a brilliant health service. They won't find it here. They'd be better off staying put.

Parlez-vous Français? No Habla Español. Granted there are so many English and Irish in Spain they have formed their own colonies in parts. As regards healthcare people from the UK should have their E106 or E121 forms.

The number of property transactions is low, so any group that can be identified stand out in the current market, it does not follow they are buying at a greater number than the boom years.

mairz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:44 am

BoyRacer wrote:

namascama wrote:

The brits who have gone to France and Spain to retire in their droves are usually seeking warm weather and a brilliant health service. They won't find it here. They'd be better off staying put.

Parlez-vous Français? No Habla Español. Granted there are so many English and Irish in Spain they have formed their own colonies in parts. As regards healthcare people from the UK should have their E106 or E121 forms.

Can confirm this - doctors, lawyer, estate agents etc in some parts of France are now having to learn English as their patients/clients despite being residents, don't have sufficient French to describe symptoms or conduct transactions. I heard a bizarre story of kids born in France to English parents starting maternelle (baby school) with no Fench!

ex-Patrick · **Posted:** Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:20 am

mairz wrote:

Can confirm this - doctors, lawyer, estate agents etc in some parts of France are now having to learn English as their patients/clients despite being residents, don't have sufficient French to describe symptoms or conduct transactions. I heard a bizarre story of kids born in France to English parents starting maternelle (baby school) with no Fench!

In fairness, my kids had a bit of French when they started maternelle, and they were only 2.5 years old so still very little.

supermonkey · **Joined:** Sep 28, 2011 **Posts:** 64

mairz wrote:

I heard a bizarre story of kids born in France to English parents starting maternelle (baby school) with no Fench!

Nothing bizarre about that at all.

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