Something old, something new

Tommy Barker finds coincidence and variations in two identically-priced homes.

OLD or new? An auctioneer has two entirely different detached homes new to market for contrasting buyers, each for the same €365,000 price — that’s a handy €1,000 a day for a year and either could then be yours.

One house is just three years old, in a scheme of 11 homes and has some internal surprises: the other is about 150 years old, and might well have hidden surprises — good, bad but hardly indifferent — for a buyer.