Compiled independently from public records, cross-referenced against the original sale listing. We have no part in the sale of this property. This is an automated summary of public data and a computer-vision reading of the exterior — not a valuation or a survey.
New to market · 2 daysOnly 1 of 19 Dublin 3 homes are 1-bed near this price
4 Spencer Pl, North Strand from the outside — condition & kerb appeal
An automated reading of Google Street View and satellite imagery at this address. It sees only the outside, and it is a machine's view — treat it as a prompt for your surveyor, not a substitute.
Street viewFrom above
Exterior read
This end-of-terrace, two-storey period property sits on a compact footprint at the corner of Spencer Place. Located in a high-density urban neighborhood, it presents a traditional urban layout ideal for modern interior reconfiguration. While space is constrained, its position offers strong location value for central living.
▲ What stands out
Prime Central Urban Location: Located in a established inner-city residential area with strong access to public transport and amenities.
Dual-Aspect Light Potential: Corner position on the lane allows side elevation windows for improved natural light compared to mid-terrace properties.
Compact & Efficient Footprint: Smaller overall surface area leads to lower heating demands once insulated and easier routine maintenance.
Strong Character & Investment Potential: Excellent potential as a modern city starter home or high-demand residential rental investment.
▼ Watch for
Lack of Private Outdoor Space: Very tight site boundary with virtually no dedicated private garden, yard, or patio area.
Privacy and Noise Concerns: Front entrance and ground floor open directly onto a narrow shared lane/footpath.
Sub-Optimal Energy Efficiency (BER): Older timber window units and uninsulated solid masonry walls will require retrofit insulation and upgraded glazing.
Restricted Parking and Refuse Logistics: No off-street parking available; bin storage is forced onto the public alleyway/lane.
Potential Damp Risks: Typical older period construction lacks modern damp-proof courses, requiring careful inspection along ground-level render junctions.
02Price & comparables
What 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand costs, and how the price compares
Asking price
€180,000
25% below the street's recent median
Prior sale
Not on record
No earlier sale of this exact home on the Register
Our estimated real value
€180,000
Likely range €130,000 – €230,000
Built from recent sold prices on the Property Price Register (last 12 months, index-adjusted to today) and comparable homes currently for sale, compared on a € per m² basis. An estimate, not a formal valuation.
Asking price vs comparable homes
Priced low for its size and area — but our exterior read or risk checks flag possible condition issues. Cheap can mean work. Treat this as a prompt to inspect, not a bargain.
Recent sales on Spencer Place
Address
Date
Price
2 SPENCER PLACE, NORTH STRAND
January 2026
€240,000
1 sale since 2023 within a sensible range of this home. From the Property Price Register — the definitive record of what Irish homes actually sold for.
Price trend — Dublin
▲ 5%1 year
▲ 22%3 years
▲ 36%5 years
Change in the CSO Residential Property Price Index for Dublin, to May 2026. A regional trend, not this exact home.
Measured at this address's small area, not the county — grouped into the environment around the home, the community, and getting around.
Environment
Flood risk
High
This property is within a HIGH probability coastal flood zone (10% annual chance / 1-in-10 year event).
Water quality
Moderate
Grand Canal Basin (Liffey and Dublin Bay) — Not at risk.
Broadband
Commercial
This property is in a commercial broadband area where high-speed broadband is already available from multiple providers (e.g., Eir, Virgin Media, SIRO, Vodafone). Fibre or cable broadband options are typically available.
Energy ratings nearby
E1
Median of 65 certificates, 59% of 111 homes in this small area.
Radon risk
Lower area
Dublin is not a designated High Radon Area — but any home can be affected. Radon maps to a 10 km grid, so check the exact address on the EPA radon map; a home test costs about €50.
Community & services
Liveability index
56/100
A blend of this report's own signals — safety, walkability, transport, broadband, affluence and flood. A rough summary; read the detail below.
Affluence
Marginally above average
Pobal Deprivation Index for NORTH DOCK A, 1.0 vs a national average of 0.
Schools within reach
3 primary
3 secondary. St. Columba's National School, The Larkin Early Education Service. Catchment is a separate question.
Healthcare nearby
5 GPs
5 pharmacies within reach.
Neighbourhood safety
4/100
138.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the D.M.R. North Central Garda division — 277% above the national average of 36.7. This is a Garda-division figure, so it averages across a wide area — a single division can span very different neighbourhoods, and inner-city divisions read high on small resident populations. Read it as a broad guide, not a street-level rating. Source: CSO CJA07 (recorded crime, under reservation).
Area profile
239 residents
NORTH DOCK A electoral division. Small-area population from the CSO Census 2022. (Affluence is in the card above.)
No bus or rail stops mapped in the immediate area — a car is likely essential here.
Nearest Garda station
Fitzgibbon Street Garda Station
1.1 km
04Before you bid
What we found against this address
Each finding is drawn from a named public dataset and checked at this property's exact location, not the estate or the town.
Critical€14.4k–€36k
Inside a high flood-risk zone
In Ireland this shows up as loaded premiums (roughly €400–1,500 a year), a flood excess of €5,000–25,000, or cover declined outright. No cover can mean no mortgage, and it follows you to resale. The OPW–Insurance Ireland memorandum only helps where a completed OPW scheme protects the address.
Do this Get a written home insurance quote BEFORE you bid, and ask whether an OPW scheme protects this address.
OPW flood maps · Indicative resale and insurability drag, as a share of asking price.
Worth knowing
BER exempt — no energy rating available
Usually a protected structure or a building outside the BER rules. It means you have no standard measure of running costs, and most lenders cannot apply a green rate.
Do this Ask why it is exempt. If it is protected, check what upgrades are even permitted before you budget.
SEAI BER register
Worth knowing
500 planning applications within 1 km
An active area for building work, mostly small domestic jobs.
Do this Scan the list for anything that would directly overlook the property.
Planning applications register
Worth knowing
Nearest monitored water body rated Moderate
Below good status under the Water Framework Directive. This matters most if the property draws well water or backs onto the watercourse.
Do this Establish whether the supply is mains or a private well, and test the well if so.
EPA water quality
05Energy & upgrade
BER EXEMPT — running costs and the upgrade to a green rating
Personalised to this property. Everything in this section is worked out from this home’s own BER of EXEMPT, as published on its Building Energy Rating certificate — not an area average, and not a typical-home estimate.
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This home is rated Exempt. Usually a protected structure or a building outside the BER rules. It means you have no standard measure of running costs, and most lenders cannot apply a green rate.
Home energy upgrade — to a B2 (green-mortgage) rating
Indicative measures and costs to bring this 110 m² home to a B2 (green-mortgage) rating, using current SEAI grant amounts. Contractor-dependent — a guide for budgeting, not a quote.
Net cost after grants
€38,850
SEAI grants available
−€18,500
Target rating
B2
Measure
What it does
Cost
SEAI grant
Net
Attic insulation
Cuts heat loss through the roof — the biggest quick win
€2,400
−€1,500
€900
External wall insulation
Wraps solid walls in insulation — the largest fabric gain
€23,300
−€8,000
€15,300
Air-to-water heat pump
Replaces the fossil boiler with efficient electric heat
€13,500
−€6,500
€7,000
Heating controls
Zoning and timers cut waste (fully grant-funded)
€700
−€700
€0
New windows & doors
Modern glazing reduces draughts and heat loss
€10,450
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€10,450
Solar PV panels
Generates your own electricity, cutting bills
€7,000
−€1,800
€5,200
Total after grants
€57,350
−€18,500
€38,850
Reaching a B2 rating unlocks green-mortgage rates (roughly 0.2–0.5% lower) and lifts resale value. SEAI grants shown at current rates; costs vary by contractor and a technical survey. You can apply through SEAI's One Stop Shop scheme.
06Aspect
W-facing garden — aspect & light
W-facing rear garden
Moderate - Garden gets some direct sunlight during the day. Derived from the building's orientation on the map.
07Planning
Planning permission near 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand
More than 500 applications sit within a kilometre — our search stops counting there. The register goes back decades, so it shows how actively the area has been built on rather than only what is coming.
5501/22 — PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Development at a site (2.86 hectares) at the rear of Connolly… (Permission granted)
4396/24 — PROTECTED STRUCTURE : The Office of Public Works, intend to apply for Planning Permission… (Permission granted)
WEB1710/25 — The proposed development consists of minor amendments to the permitted and under… (Permission granted)
08Before you sign
Your pre-contract checklist
22 items, 12 of them must-do, tailored to what we found here. Budget roughly €3.3k–€6.8k for the paid ones.
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Get your surveyor to
3 items
Commission a pre-purchase survey from a chartered building surveyormust · €500–€1.1k
The most important spend before you sign, and the only thing that examines the actual fabric of the building. Nothing in an online report replaces it.
Ask the surveyor to check floor levels and any flood defencesshould
Tells you whether previous owners have already had to deal with water.
Ask whether the ground floor has been tested for pyrite (IS 398)should · €400–€900
Relevant for homes built in the Leinster region during the 2000s boom.
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Get your solicitor to
7 items
Instruct a solicitor for title, planning and local authority searchesmust · €2.2k–€4.5k
Confirms the seller owns what they are selling and that everything built has permission.
Get Certificates of Compliance with planning and Building Regulations for any extension or attic conversionmust
Unauthorised work can block your mortgage and becomes your problem the day you close.
Check the Local Property Tax band is correctly declared and paid upmust
An under-declared band follows the property to you, not the seller.
Establish whether this is a protected structure, and what work is permittedmust
Protected status restricts windows, insulation and heating changes, and it is the usual reason for BER exemption.
Review the nearby planning applications in fullmust
What gets built next door affects both how you live there and what you sell it for.
Confirm the boundaries on the title map match what you were shownshould
Boundary disputes are slow, expensive and surprisingly common.
Ask whether a completed OPW flood scheme protects this addressshould
The insurance industry memorandum only applies where a scheme is finished, so this changes your cover options.
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Ask the seller or agent
4 items
Ask for the BER certificate and the advisory report that goes with itmust
The advisory report lists the specific upgrades recommended for this house.
Ask why they are selling and how long they have owned itmust
Free, and it tells you more about the property and your negotiating room than any document.
Check the BER certificate has not expiredshould
A BER lasts ten years. An expired cert will not support a green mortgage rate application.
Ask whether the property has ever flooded, and about any insurance refusalsshould
A seller need not volunteer problems, but must not misrepresent when asked. So ask, in writing, through your solicitor.
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Do this on your viewing
5 items
View a second time at a different time of daymust
Traffic, noise, parking and light all change. Most buyers only ever see a house once.
Look for Japanese knotweed in the garden and along boundariesshould
It is a genuine mortgage blocker in Ireland, and treatment runs for several years.
Run every tap, flush every toilet, open every windowshould
Water pressure, drainage and rotten frames are expensive and easy to miss in a ten-minute viewing.
Get into the attic and look under the stairsshould
Insulation depth, damp and the age of the wiring are all visible where nobody looks.
Do a radon test if you buy, or ask if one has been doneworth it · €30–€50
Ireland is a European radon hotspot. Testing is cheap and remediation is usually straightforward.
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Sort with your lender or broker
3 items
Confirm your approval covers this specific property and pricemust · €150–€200
Approval in principle is not a loan offer. The lender still has to value and approve this house.
Budget for stamp duty and check what other costs land at closingmust
Stamp duty is 1% up to €1m, 2% between €1m and €1.5m, and 6% above that. It is the largest cost buyers forget, and on a new build it is charged on the price excluding VAT.
Get a written home insurance quote before you bidmust
If cover is refused or heavily loaded, your mortgage and your resale are both affected. Find out now, not after the deposit.
Financing
What can you borrow for this house?
We compare live rates from ten Irish lenders, including the green rates a B3 or better unlocks. See what this home would cost you each month.
4 Spencer Pl, North Strand: your questions answered
How much is 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand?
4 Spencer Pl, North Strand is for sale at an asking price of €180,000. Recent sales on the street have a median of €240,000, so the asking is 25% below them.
Is 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand at risk of flooding?
This property is within a HIGH probability coastal flood zone (10% annual chance / 1-in-10 year event).
What is the BER of 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand?
The listing gives a BER of EXEMPT. The median rating across 111 homes in the same small area is E1.
What condition is 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand in?
This end-of-terrace, two-storey period property sits on a compact footprint at the corner of Spencer Place. Located in a high-density urban neighborhood, it presents a traditional urban layout ideal for modern interior reconfiguration. While space is…
What should I check before bidding on 4 Spencer Pl, North Strand?
12 items are marked must-do, including a pre-purchase survey and your solicitor's searches. Budget roughly €3.3k–€6.8k for due diligence.
