Country house market: A year in review

There is little doubt that the country market is now at a threshold, with 2015 poised to be possibly the most definitive year since 2008 crash.

Following a disappointing 2014 in many ways, in which the glowing embers of recovery in 2013 failed to really catch light it can be seen now that those stirrings were the early vanguard of risk takers picking up the real bargains of ‘bust & bailout’ Ireland.

As the vulture funds swooped on commercial property at below-cost fire clearance prices in NAMA land, so the well funded and risk non-averse buyer who bought in 2013 appears to be looking good as the recovery takes hold and prices at top of the country market begin to harden.