Country property offers a blank slate to buyers

This property at Clounvrick, Macroom in Co Cork could appeal to buyers wanting to move out of town.

DOER-upper or knocker-downer — the choice is with the planners on that one, but at €190,000 and on a leafy site, this property at Clounvrick, Macroom, could entice townies out the country a little bit.

With site values having doubled in the last two years, old wrecks like this one have been turned into much more attractive propositions, especially with housing controls preventing ‘outsiders’ from building in rural areas.