Stealing Treats

 

Price register by June – Irish Times

IRELAND will finally get a detailed property price register by next June. Tom Lynch, head of the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA), told Around the Block yesterday that he “would be very surprised if the Authority didn’t have it out before then”.

The PRSA, of course, is the body tasked with publishing the register, and Lynch says publishing it will be his priority, once the Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 becomes law, likely within a month or so.

An amendment to the bill, which passed Committee stage in the Dáil in mid-October, orders that particulars of residential property sales prices, including addresses, prices paid and dates of sale, will be included in the register.

Lynch and his team, based in their Navan office, are already working out how to transfer the information from the Revenue Commissioners, already in receipt of this information for stamp duty purposes (it involves writing a new computer programme, basically).

The plan is to publish information as far back as possible, although getting accurate figures may be more difficult the further back they go, Lynch suggests. However, information going back at least two years should be included with the register.

The PSRA, set up in the days when the property industry was riding high, will have many other jobs to do. It was set up to regulate the industry and will do this by licensing everyone – from auctioneers, estate, letting and property management agents – working in the industry.

But it’s good to know that giving the public instant access to house sale prices is top of its “to do” list.

This article appeared here in the Irish Times.

Sticky Situation

Whose up for a game of Space Invaders?

Chandelier, if you can’t afford it, stick it.

Why visit Paris, when it can come to you.

The no fuss Christmas tree, perfect.

All stickers from My Living Space

Going Green to the Extreme

Spider-man must cut the grass.

Talk about over doing the camouflage, where’s the house gone?

Where’s the garden gone? doh, silly me it’s on the roof of course.

Car Camping

The car tent is a tent designed to look like a car cover, so you can go camping in the city without being disturbed. When you get hungry you could roast a banker over an open flame. Delicious!

Tiny House

Tumbleweed Tiny house company

Very Funny Dog, Brilliant

Food Market

I was at the craft and food market on Sunday in Co Louth checking out all the goods and came across Big Red Kitchen. Big Red Kitchen is a small “cottage industry” business, based in Stamullen, County Meath, producing homemade jams, chutneys and baked goods.

I purchased their Pineapple and chilli chutney, its sweet when you first taste it and then POW an explosion of hotness hits your mouth, really tasty. I also purchased a jar of lemon curd, brings back memories of childhood, it’s so good. But my favourite has to be Pear and Vanilla jam.

This has got to be one of the nicest jams I have ever tasted, it is the perfect jam, it’s so unusual to get pear in a jam but this is a piece of paradise in a jar.

You can check out their website to see where they will be setting up stall at the next market, definitely worth a visit.

Would You Stay Here?

The Propeller Island City Lodge Hotel Berlin, there are over 30 unusual unique rooms you can choose from e.g. the one with coffins for beds, the room with a floating bed.

Austria Linz’s sewer pipe Das Park Hotel, are you afraid of the dark?

Or what about swimming with the fish, Swedens Vasteras Utter Inn, yep looks like a garden shed in the middles of a lake, but check this out.

The rooms go below the water.

Funky Homewares

You can sleep to the beat with these funky Boombox Pillow Set.

 

Only problem with this Pizza box chopping board, you will probably crave pizza every time you use it.

 

Spinning the decks with this Vinyl Chopping Board.

 

Brilliant loving this Cardboard deer taxidermy “warning no animals were harmed in the making of this”.

All above homewares from Urban Outfitters.