Dublin's Priciest Listing Keeps Getting Cheaper

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Ava Watson grew up in Dublin, played soccer at Jerome, and headed to Illinois State University four years ago. This week, she was named one of 14 Robert G. Bone Scholars for the 2026-27 school year — the highest academic honor the university gives to undergraduates, selected from the entire student body through a rigorous campus-wide competition.

Watson is majoring in biology with a perfect 4.0 GPA. She's also a starting defender who has logged 56 starts over her college career and helped the Redbirds set a school record with 13 shutouts in 2025. The Bone Scholarship isn't an athletic award — it's a university-wide recognition of academic achievement and leadership, and she competed for it alongside every student at Illinois State, not just athletes.

Only 34 student-athletes in the school's history have ever earned it. She's one of them.

This keeps happening with Dublin kids — the combination of competitive athletics and serious academics that our schools develop seems to follow them wherever they go. Ava Watson is just the latest example of that — and a pretty good one.

Photo courtesy of Dublin Jerome High School.

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Most people don't hire a professional organizer because they want prettier shelves. They hire one because life got ahead of them.

The new baby came. The move happened. Work got busy. Clutter spread from one room to the next until the whole house felt like it needed attention. Boxes sat in the corner for months — and every time you walked past them, they quietly reminded you of another thing you hadn't gotten around to.

That's where Amie Lopez comes in. She's lived in Dublin most of her life and built a business around helping people through exactly those seasons — when things feel just a little too big to handle alone. Sometimes that means organizing an entire home. Sometimes it's unpacking after a move so you're actually living in your new house instead of camping in it. Sometimes it's making sure a graduation party or baby shower runs so smoothly that the host gets to enjoy it too.

If your home, an upcoming move, or an event has been quietly stressing you out, her team is worth a call.

Learn more here.

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The most expensive home in Dublin just got a million dollars cheaper.

The estate at 5000 Deer Run Dr, tucked into the gated Deer Run Estates off Dublin-Granville, first hit the market in April at $8.5 million. It came down to $7.95 million a week later, got pulled off the market in early June, and just relisted this month at $7.5 million. That's a $1 million drop in under three months.

For that price you're getting 9,100 square feet, five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and 7.33 acres with a ravine and a waterfall running through the backyard. The place was fully redone in 2024 — glass wine cellar, indoor pool house with its own ice maker, basketball court, five fireplaces, the works. It's also just a few minutes from Bridge Park, if the idea of an ice maker in your pool house wasn't already selling it.

Worth noting: the HOA alone runs $13,000 a year, and property taxes come in around $83,500 annually. So even at the discount, this may not exactly be an impulse buy.

This one's in a category of its own in Dublin — it's not close to the next-priciest listing in town. For comparison, Dublin's second-most expensive home is $5.6 million, sits right on the tournament golf course, and is more than twice the size. The 7+ acres of wooded, ravine lot is clearly a big part of what sets this one apart, though how much that's really worth is anyone's guess.

But with three cuts in three months — who knows — we might be back with another million-dollar update soon. Check out the listing here.