City Gate, Dublin 11

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Hi guys,

did anyone buy an apartment at City Gate on St.Margaret's Road?

I bought one of them (2 bed) last year for €263,950, now they are selling for 365k? Any views/opinions, do you think this is realistic and not overpriced?

Thanks
 
I bought apt. in City Side a couple of years ago. I don't think they're particularly overpriced in comparison to the rest of the market.It's just the crazyness of the current market.

On another note, I am in the process of selling this apt. and moving to one of the last new builds in City Side (Melville Cove). Has anyone closed on a house here recently? Trying to get a clearer picture of when we might be closing.
 
As far as I know, City Side and City Gate are pretty much the same in terms of structure etc...
I'm supposed to move into the apt. in a few weeks. It's on the first floor.
What's soundproof like?
I heard they're timber-framed?
 
I moved into a 1st floor apartment in Cityside - phase 2, earlier this year, having bought it in June last year and I am nearly ready to move out with the noise that travels from the Duplex above me.

I can hear drawers opening, doors closing, people talking, every footstep the residents take - I'm ready to move.

If anyone is considering buying an apartment in this development, make sure you get a noise level reading or something similar done before you commit. I
 
building regs on sound are no good- its the same story in alot of apartments all over Ireland me thinks
 

100% agree, the soundproofing is terrible.

Make sure you write to the builders to let them know, it's being looked at at the moment by the resident's committee.
 
bobbysands81 said:
100% agree, the soundproofing is terrible.
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Unless you live in the upstairs apartments with no one above you. It's great then .

I've no problems at all with soundproofing in Cityside at all.
 
ronan_d_john said:
Unless you live in the upstairs apartments with no one above you. It's great then .

I've no problems at all with soundproofing in Cityside at all.
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I can hear normal movement CLEARLY 2 floors above me pal - it's hell.
 
CCOVICH said:
Residents of CitySide/CityGate may find that is a more appopriate forum to discuss issues that affect their development.
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Cheers pal, will take a look at it.
 
Building Regulations! Don't make me laugh.

 Who inspects them? In an apartment scheme, who enforces them? How many court cases for example have you heard of where residents or a local authority took legal action against builders for non-compliance?

 The Property Mafiosa have this country sewn up folks. From the developers, builders, building contracters, property managers and their agents. They have the masses stitched up. Croppies, lie down!

 ""Oh, croppies ye'd better be quiet and still
Ye shan't have your liberty, do what ye will
As long as salt water is formed in the deep
A foot on the necks of the croppy we'll keep
And drink, as in bumpers past troubles we drown,
A health to the lads that made croppies lie down
Down, down, croppies lie down."
 

The thing is that even though it's the builders that have built my place if I want to try and rectify the noise levels I have to go after my neighbour and NOT the builders who've caused the hassle in the first place.
 
I live in another development.

In my opinion the noise levels mentioned here are very common in multi-floor apartment blocks in Ireland and are a result of low building standards to begin with, poor compliance with existing standards that are there and poor management.

And bad luck. A sensitive tenant/owner would relaise this and reduce their noise. But many people simply won't do this, not out of spite, that's just the way they are. And if you get in their face too much, they might get worse.

The solution is thicker walls and floors and lots of sound insulation. You won't hear your neighbours in a new apartment in Germany, for example.
 
True. But in Germany no one is even thinking about building a house with timber (unless for holidays etc), never mind the apartments.

If the standards are poor, then there's no point in getting the sound test done for builder might've complied with regulation, yet you can hear footsteps and so on.

When did they start building apartments with timber and why?

I rented an apartment at Grattan Hall in Donaghmede few years ago, but the floors were concrete and sound insulation alright, even though timber walls with plasterboards were in place.
 

I hear practically no noise from my next door neighbours on either side though the upstairs/downstairs is a nightmare.
 
What floor are you on, Bobby? Are the floors really timber, can you put wooden floor at all?
 
kasko said:
What floor are you on, Bobby? Are the floors really timber, can you put wooden floor at all?
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I'm on the ground and first floor and there are 2 floors above me.

They have wooden floors down in their sitting room but that is only part of the problem, there are many many other noises that are nothing to do with the wooden floors that I can constantly hear.

Doors closing, washing machine, people on the stairs, voices, TV, etc... yet when the builders have spoken to me they say that the problem is the floors when it's clearly more than that.
 
Have you tried any sort of legal action? Did you get any specialist to come in and check the sound issue out?

What do other residents say?
 
kasko said:
Have you tried any sort of legal action? Did you get any specialist to come in and check the sound issue out?

What do other residents say?
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I have taken legal advice.

I need to speak with the people who live above me, they were also told that work would be carried out to limit the noise.

After that I will get a specialist in to test the noise levels.

There are plenty of other residents complaining about the noise levels, I am by no means the only one.
 
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