On View This Weekend

From cute cottages to apartments and spacious family houses, there’s lots to view this weekend

First-time buyers and downsizers have been viewing Elmfield, an apartment scheme on Ballyogan Road, Dublin 18, opposite the proposed Gallops Luas stop (due in 2010).

The finished scheme has larger than average apartments with well-proportioned rooms, good storage and a nice finish. One-beds start at €285,000 and two-beds at €335,000. Larger three-beds are from €395,000 through Sherry FitzGerald New Homes.

On view Saturday/Sunday 2pm-4pm

A modern house with amazing sea views in a gated enclave near Dalkey village has come on the market through Sherry FitzGerald at €2.45 million. Number 5 Rocklands is a large 285sq m (3,067sq ft) detached house with direct access to the foreshore. It’s off Harbour Road, close to St Patricks Church, a short stroll from the village.

On view Saturday 1pm-2pm

At the other end of the price scale in Dalkey is 18 St Patrick’s Road, an end of terrace one-bed cottage near the main street, and just steps from the popular Idlewild Cafe. The well maintained 47sq m (506sq ft) house is for sale with Sherry FitzGerald at €360,000.

On view Saturday, 11.30am-12.30pm

Colliers Jackson-Stops has cut €200,000 off the price of 7 Ormond Road in Rathmines, a terraced four-bed house in good order now for sale at €1.35m. The 186sq m (2,000sq ft) house has two attractive interconnecting reception rooms, a refurbished kitchen and four double bedrooms.

On view Saturday, noon-1pm

An interesting modern house on the north Clare coast between Ballyvaughan and Kinvara has come on the market through Casey Auctioneers at €750,000. Dooneen is a 260sq m (2,800sq ft) five-bed house in walk-in condition with three-quarters of an acre, surrounded by the wild Burren landscape. It is finished to a high degree, with a smart kitchen designed for serious cooks and a decked patio that runs around the house. There is plenty of space for weekenders with a large bedroom suite downstairs and four double bedrooms, one en suite.

On view Sunday and bank holiday Monday, 1pm-2.30pm

In Rathfarnham, an unusual art deco house at the junction of Woodside Drive and Riverside Drive is on the market through Herman Wilkinson at €1.55 million. The four-bedroom house has been designed in a curved style to take advantage of its large corner site. It has two large reception rooms as well as a study with panelled walls.

On view Saturday 11am-noon

In Sandymount. a redbrick three-bedroom townhouse with an airy modern interior is on the market through Bennetts at €1.15 million. Located off Sydney Parade Avenue, 6 Martello Mews is a corner house with 130sq m (1,400sq ft) of living space that includes an attractive first floor livingroom with a low fireplace and access to a south-facing balcony. The ground floor has the kitchen and a separate diningroom with access to the garden, while the entire top floor is given over to the main bedroom suite with its walk-in dressingroom and sizeable en suite.

On view Saturday, 1pm-2pm