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The advertising catalogue promises to develop a new home, just minutes from the bustling center of the Irish town of Longford, with nurseries, tennis courts and mini golf courses.
But due to the leakage of sewage, the pot
Road jam, no street lights, half abandoned
Building houses around his home proves that Silver Birch estate is far from karate teacher John Kieran's expectations for his family.
The site was littered with wires and abandoned building materials, making the site a dangerous playground for children.
Some of his neighbors also complained about the mouse coming to the nearby swimming pool.
He and his wife said that with the clearing of developers and the decline in house prices, they could do nothing but wait for the help of the local parliament.
"This is a family home and is now slowly but surely becoming an abandoned family," 45-year-
Old Kieran said.
"If I try to sell my house now, I will say I will be laughed.
More than half of the 50 houses of silver birch trees are empty or unfinished and are called "Haunted Houses "--
One of the 620 residential developments around Ireland is a legacy of the former Celtic Tiger property boom and bust.
After two years of austerity, Ireland still faces a slow pace out of recession as it tries to cope with the consequences of the collapse, which has led to an estimated oversupply of at least 100,000 homes, and the mount to save its exposed lending department.
The government has set up a "bad bank" and a National Asset Management Organization (NAMA)
Clean up unstable real estate loans worth € 81 billion from commercial banks$106 billion).
It says that the agency will eventually pass
The loans it purchased were an important tool to clean up the affected housing and banking sectors.
Its goal is 10-year lifespan.
While NAMA still has to complete loan transfers and property checks, it is still unclear whether stagnant projects can be rescued or what avenues of compensation, if any, buyers such as killane may buy.
The government is considering options such as social housing.
But it can also wipe the slabs clean and raze some of the estates to the ground.
"In the next few years, places closer to Dublin may be occupied, but I think especially in some counties far away from Dublin, we will see hundreds of units vacant for a long time, "Ciaran cuff, state minister, said his portfolio includes planning, heritage and gardening.
"In some cases, we can seal up and wait until the economy picks up, but we also have to look for innovative solutions to find new uses for these devices.
Ireland enjoyed ten years.
When developers were attracted by the Bank's generous loans to build houses on cheap land and serve a group of workers instead of paying sky-high prices, real estate boomed for a long time
The price in Dublin is very high, and it is more willing to pay a little less and commute.
But 2007 of the bubble burst into Ireland's worst recession ever, with an estimated 300,000 homes unsold or unfinished. Cash-
Troubled developers have abandoned projects that are still in progress, leaving overrated home owners surrounded by bleak, deteriorating venues.
According to official data, as of the end of 2010, nearly 200,000 homeowners faced negative assets and mortgage holders had to repay loans that exceeded the value of the house.
A housewife said on "Ghost Manor": "I am trapped by a house that no one will consider buying, I will be in debt for the rest of my life," declined to be named.
The mother of the two said she was lucky to get 200,000 euros in a house that paid 320,000 euros three years ago.
But since the house in her separate apartment was badly finished, she could hardly see the buyer queuing up.
"I feel cheated.
House prices are still falling.
As more and more construction companies enter Bankruptcy Management, the sale of price houses is becoming a feature of the housing market, which is seriously depressed.
The pace of falling house prices slowed to 1.
A survey on Thursday showed prices in the second quarter were 7%, while prices have fallen 35% since they peaked at the end of the year. 2006.
National Institute for Regional Spatial Analysis (NIRSA)
On Thursday, the government called for an independent investigation into the "catastrophic failure" of the planning system, just like an investigation into the Bank of Ireland.
Planning failures led to real estate bubbles and crises, demand from developers and speculators and ambitious localized growth plans drove planning, while tax incentives encouraged excesses, the report said.
The company said that for most of the year, there was one uninhabited in every six houses in Ireland.
Rob Kitchin, director of NIRSA, said: "The establishment of the survey will enable Ireland to learn from past mistakes and help the real estate market to re-embark on the road to recovery . ".
While NAMA is not under pressure to sell its assets, critics fear that its unprecedented scale could balance the market if it accidentally makes a sale.
However, some developers are determined to do their job.
Johnny Owens sold three of his 45-year-old houses.
On June 2007, the Coill Rua property in Mullingar, Westmeath County, was not sold until last January.
He owed the bank 20 million euros, but this year he kept the property and sold 12 houses at about half the original price.
He wants to build another 40. “There (are)
People who are buying houses here now initially have deposits on other housing plans in town and they withdraw their deposits because nothing happens on their website, owens said as he walked on the neat grounds.
"But that won't be the case here, because I won't leave this site in an abandoned state whether it's hell or high water level.
When I have blood left on me, I will go to work.