Attractive price at Ardnavaha

Former rectory comes with swimming pool and apartments, writes Tommy Barker

WHAT a difference a few years makes. Back in early 2009, West Cork’s Ardnavaha House went publicly up for sale, with vendors’ high hopes of €3m-plus offers, with 15 guest apartments and 11 acres of land with pond included, and a possibility of a further 30 or so acres if the money was right.

Well, it never happened. , The country market continued to follow the economy into the doldrums, and it was overpriced even for the boom times — it’s real value at the time maybe have been in the €1 to €1.5m category.