Maggie Molloy offers fun, informative snippets on the Cheap Irish Homes RTÉ series. Here she spends her days searching around Ireland for affordable homes for people with small budgets and big dreams.
One thing she’s noticed recently is that farmers are realising that there’s a growing amount of willing buyers looking for renovation type properties – basically somewhat derelict farm houses or cottages. Maggie says there is no shortage of these houses. “There are so many of them at the bottom of lanes and fields. A lot of farmers are now coming around to the idea that they are worth money.”
Here and there farmers designed unusual layouts where several new builds sprung up around parents’ homes which then fell derelict. “In these cases, you can have a little cottage stuck in the middle of a farmyard, but new layouts are often figured out,” she says.
She adds that there are a lot of benefits to rural living and many people are happy to commute when it means they can return home in the evening to a serene setting. Plus, the current popularity of remote working has prompted more people to leave cities and head to the country.
Maggie is soon on the road again in search of more great property bargains in new eight-part series orbiting adventurous house hunters not afraid of hands-on work and are open to relocation. To get in touch, e-mail cheapirishhomes@cameoproductions.ie. Applicants must be available for filming over a number of days between April and September, 2022.
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