Gordon Cobbe News Today

Auctioneers are not as excited as Dermot Bannon about the Vacant Properties Refurbishment Grant.

55ac farm close to motorway in Westmeath 2023-08-02

Co Meath farm gets €25,000/ac at auction 2023-06-29

No moaning for Rooskeynamona at spring sale finale 2023-05-28

163ac Offaly farm ideal for livestock 2023-05-17

Getting the farm valued – what’s involved 2022-01-05

The 40.5ac at Gorteen, Johnstownbridge, Co Kildare, was sold recently by auctioneer Edward Carey. Recent days have seen good prices paid for farmland sold at auction. Auctioneer Edward Carey had a successful auction of 40.5ac at Gorteen, Johnstownbridge in Co Kildare. A bid of €485,000 was made for the farm but it was withdrawn. Negotiations then took place with this bidder – over the phone – and the land was sold shortly afterwards for a higher figure believed to be around the guide pr...

Recent days have seen good prices paid for farmland sold in online auctions. On Friday last, GVM Property Tullamore sold 41ac of grassland at Derrycoffey, Croghan, Rhode, Co Offaly. The property had been guided at €200,000, but sold in the online auction at €250,000. Auctioneer Gordon Cobbe said that such was the interest that the bidding was completed and the land sold within 150 seconds of the auction opening. The opening bid was €100,000. The land has a derelict cottage and road fr...

An attractive compact farm with a good yard near Kilbeggan in Co Westmeath has the makings of an ideal out-farm or part-time farm.

The land market in North Leinster was dominated by the sale of the 1,090ac at Ballinla near Edenderry that sold for €11m in an auction conducted by Raymond Potterton in August. This sale meant that the acreage sold in the region went from 1,156ac in 2019 to 2,345ac last year, an increase of 103pc. The €25.445m generated by auction sales represented an increase of 93pc on the money spent at land auctions in the region in 2020. At €10,850/ac, the average price of land was 5pc lower than the...