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Is this the worst house for sale in Ireland?

Published 15:20 22 Sept 2026 BST

Updated 15:24 22 Sept 2026 BST

Aoife Moore
Is this the worst house for sale in Ireland?

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A three bedroomed terraced house in Rialto is on the market for €425,000, it is the stuff of nightmares.

The housing crisis is getting worse, by everyone's measure. Around 18,000 Irish people are currently in emergency accommodation.

The cost of housing is astronomical. Everyday we see houses sell for thousands over asking, but today, we may have found the worst example of Ireland's housing crisis.

Ironically located on a street called "New Ireland Road" in Rialto, Dublin 8. The house is €5,000 per square metre and looks like a horror set.

The bungee cord holding up the garden gate might have been the first red flag, but there are so many more to see!

Nothing like curling up on the sofa after work and staring into your delapidated fire place.

Maybe a cup of tea in your kitchen delivered not from IKEA but from the gates of Hades?

After a long day, you might need a shower and where better than this, gorgeous mid-century bathroom? If the century is the 17th and the bathroom is from an asylum.

Time to put the kids to bed! And where better than a haunted yellow room? With extra doors for extra nightmare fuel.

Then a nice lie down in your own peaceful bedroom, the X on the window, marking where your soul has left after your paid almost half a million euro for this house.