Fancy living the glamorous life of Vogue Williams and the other bizarrely monikered lovelies from Fade Street, RTE2’s answer to The Hills? Thought not. If you did, it is too late anyway. The apartment where the girls kicked back and reviewed the day’s vacuous activities was on the rental market, but someone young and glamorous appears to have signed the lease. The rent on the three-bedroom apartment above the trendy No Name Bar is ¤1,600 a month.
Rye sale
Ryevale House, home of the late architect Sam Stephenson, is said to be still “quietly” on the market for about ¤2m. The Georgian mansion in Leixlip, Co Kildare, was an unlikely base for a designer not known for his tenderness towards Georgian buildings. It is still owned by his widow, Caroline, who was refused planning permission a few years ago to develop houses and apartments on the grounds.
Home to Texas
The actor Dennis Quaid has put his equestrian estate in Los Angeles on the market for $16.9m (€12.2m). The French-style, 8,400-sq-ft house in Pacific Palisades has eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a wine cellar, a gym, a swimming pool and a spa, all set in two acres. Quaid, 56, starred in 1980s blockbusters such as The Big Easy and recently played Bill Clinton opposite Michael Sheen’s Tony Blair in The Special Relationship. He is planning to return to Texas, where he grew up, to be near his family.