Outrage as Louth mobile home goes on market for €495,000

Outrage has been expressed after a holiday home in Louth was listed on a property website for €495,000.

The three-bedroom holiday home was posted on Daft.ie and later reposted by Ciarán Mulqueen of Crazy House Prices on Twitter, a popular page dedicated to exposing property prices and rental accommodation in Ireland.

In shock, Mr Mulqueen said: "This is a mobile home for sale in Louth for €495,000. I checked to see if the agent added a 0 by mistake, but he hasn't. This is actually a real ad."

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The 80m² holiday home, with a BER rating of G, denoting the poorest energy efficiency rating on the scale of A-G, has two bathrooms and is located in Clogherhead, a small fishing village in Co Louth.

While the ad has since been removed from Daft.ie, commenters on Mr Mulqueen's Twitter post have been expressing their shock and outrage at the listing.

One Twitter user remarked: "The negative equity that will absolutely follow the purchase of this will give the buyer decades of heartache", while another simply said: "I wanna cry."

Another user referring to a personal anecdote said a neighbour of theirs allegedly attempted to sell a log cabin in their garden for €80,000, which ended in vain.

"For anyone who need to know: A property must have its own metered mains water supply and an individual eircode to be sold as a dwelling," he added.

Another user said: "Didn't even know there was a 'G' rating, I can't believe advert is real that has to be someone trolling or someone doing it for the laugh."

However, playing devil's advocate one person remarked that the €495,000 is for the entire plot, however the ad states that it is a three-bedroom, two-bath home.

"It's already gone from Daft probably due to the negative reaction but could have been a mistake? There's no way anyone would pay 495K for a place of that size," one final user said.

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