Ballinrobe featured in RTÉ One's Find Me A Home

Episode 2 of RTÉ One property series Find Me A Home features a retired mid-wife Cliona who sells up in Greystones and moves to Ballinrobe in Mayo. She sells her house to be release funds to help her daughter buy a house also.  The episode will broadcast on Thursday 8th September, 8.30pm on RTÉ One.

In episode two, we meet retired midwife Clíona who is making the sacrifice of selling up her home in Greystones to release some cash to put towards the deposit her daughter and family need to buy their first home. And in Leitrim Estate agent Des Wynne takes us on a tour of some of the bargain bungalows he has for sale for as little as €20,000.

Find Me A Home is a nationwide six-part observational documentary series following the trials and tribulations of those trying to buy, rent or sell a home in the current property market. Across the series we meet a wide variety of house hunters often in very tricky situations:

* first time buyers finding it difficult to get a mortgage and a deposit

* downsizers, hoping to trade down to release cash

* buyers and sellers at property auctions

* home owners in negative equity

* renters who fear they’ll never get their foot on the property ladder

We also go behind the scenes with estate agents as they try to help stimulate the market after a turbulent decade – with mixed results. In some parts of the country a chronic lack of supply leads to frantic bidding wars, while in others agents go years without selling a single house.

It’s a highly charged mix of emotions as couples and individuals struggle to make the most important decision of their lives.

The series was filmed in the Spring and Summer of 2016.

Episode 2

For many first time buyers, their only hope of ever buying a home is with a generous injection of outside cash, usually offered by a close relative. In episode two, we meet retired midwife Clíona who is making the sacrifice of selling up her home in Greystones to release some cash to put towards the deposit her daughter and family need to buy their first home.

“With very high rent and childcare expenses they haven’t a hope of saving for a deposit. There must be something I can do to help”. Clíona McLoughlin, Greystones

Clíona has a canny plan to sell up in Greystones, and from the sale of her house buy a smaller house in a more affordable part of the country.

In Ireland, the counties at the top of the affordability list are currently Longford and Leitrim. Estate agent Des Wynne in Drummkeeran Co. Leitrim takes us on a tour of some of the bargain bungalows he has for sale for as little as €20,000.

“It’s the cheapest house in Ireland at the price of a car parking space in Dublin” . Des Wynne, Estate agent, Drumkerran

CREDITS:

Executive Producer for RTÉ: Grainne McAleer Executive Producer for Waddell Media: David Cumming

Produced and Directed by Edel O’Brien and Edel O’Mahony