{"id":397825,"date":"2026-04-14T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397825\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:32:07","slug":"78-acre-waterford-holding-achieves-record-e3-1m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397825\/","title":{"rendered":"78-acre Waterford holding achieves record \u20ac3.1m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last featured <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/farming\/arid-41811251.html\">here on March 17<\/a>, a large 78-acre holding in Waterford went under the hammer on Friday, April 10, at the Woodlands Hotel in Waterford city.<\/p>\n<p>Des Purcell of Purcell Properties was the man with the gavel on the day and the venue was packed, already indicative of strong interest in such a rarity of a large agricultural holding so close to Ireland\u2019s oldest city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This was essentially a large agricultural holding that came with plenty of tangible hope value for development further down the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Located at Bishopscourt, Grantstown, the farm hugs the edges of Waterford city, being close to University Hospital Waterford and Ballygunner National School. It was presented in lots: Lot of 31.8 acres; Lot 2 of 46.3 acres and Lot 3 being the entire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lot 1 had the benefit of a four-bedroom residence with outbuildings and the lands (all in grass) had been carefully farmed through the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the day, the first two lots generated some interest. However, when the entire was put up for sale, this proved to be much more attractive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After some spirited bidding, the holding was placed on the market at \u20ac2.9m and knocked down at \u20ac3.1m (\u20ac40,000\/acre).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Given that the pre-auction guide was \u20ac2,175,000, this was an extraordinary result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe were very pleased with the result,\u201d commented Des afterwards. \u201cThe price achieved was particularly strong and was indicative of the very lively demand for good agricultural and development opportunities.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last featured here on March 17, a large 78-acre holding in Waterford went under the hammer on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83634,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-397825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-farming-property","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}