Real-estate agents say that a notable change in Ireland's market has been the arrival of U.S. buyers, especially with ties to the country. “All but one of my inquiries have been American.”
Prices for these properties are leveling off, following a period of ups and downs brought on by Brexit and Covid fears
Sopwell Hall, an 18th-century Irish country house west of Dublin, has an asking price of $8.96 million.Michael Ramsden chose just the right time to fall in love with Ireland. Hailing from Hampshire, in southeast England, the 79-year-old retired banker and antiques dealer first arrived in the 1960s to study at Trinity College Dublin.
Long before the country’s economy began its meteoric rise in the 1990s, he was investing in real estate. “Properties I bought in the 1970s are worth 100 times what I paid,” he says, speaking from his Georgian country house, Sopwell Hall, in County Tipperary, about two hours outside of Dublin. In 1985, Mr. Ramsden and his wife, Sarah Ramsden, then based in a historic Dublin townhouse, bought Sopwell for 150,000 Irish pounds, or just under $160,000.
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