Bag a beauty in Ballycotton
And why?
The location, the views, the south-facing aspect and a beach, all within commutable distance to Cork city and close to the bustling town of Midleton.
The property is on the market as a private treaty sale with Christy Buckley with a guide price of €250,000, just under a €10,000 per acre average, considering there is about five acres of headland waste.
Good-quality east Cork land, this farm is all in one block, has road frontage, albeit limited, and a pedestrian walkway on one side leading to a quiet public beach at the cliff end of the farm.
As an add-on, it’s ideal, because it comes in a tidy block with little waste apart from the fields close to the cliff, and the land is suitable for grazing or tillage, although it’s now all in pasture.
The residential farm is being offered as a land sale, but there is the option of selling the extended, traditional farmhouse and farmyard. This might particularly appeal to the hobby farm buyer, as achieving permission to build in this sensitive, coastal area is very difficult, even for eligible local buyers.
With an Indian summer prolonging the fine, dry harvest days, it looks like the farm property market will remain bullish for the foreseeable future — it will be interesting to see if the long-lost hobby farmer will make a reappearance too.
