Are they mad? Brand new homes in Ireland to be knocked down!

Brand new really nice looking homes in Ireland are to be knocked down

If they are going cheap they should advertise them to us lot in the UK... wonder how much they are!

See vid here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8653238.stm

I saw this on the TV today Azz......There are loads of these estates all over Ireland. The houses are about 4 years old and have never had anyone living there. they spoke to a few residents who are essentially living in valueless homes with the ghost estate around them.

It does seem criminal though to knock them down when there are so many people without homes etc......

i saw that yesterday......im sure some people from over here, may like to move over there?

Isn't it just awful? I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing this morning

I would rather see them sold off at a fraction of their original price than get knocked down.

Who wants to buy one for £50,000 ?

Totally agree, or auction them off?

I wonder whether they are open to offers?

The words 'greed' and 'avarice' come to mind

Pretty shocking. Developers went bananas in the North, too. Loads of people were buying land in my home town, and starting building BEFORE they'd got planning permission. It generally worked out, much to the disgust of other residents, but I know of a number of cases where houses were sold on, and the planning committee subsequently refused planning. Nothing to be done but pull the house down, and it was the buyers who took the wrap: not the property developers!