{"id":2138,"date":"2012-05-29T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:23:51","slug":"come-to-ireland-and-buy-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/come-to-ireland-and-buy-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to Ireland and buy a house&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The faithful followers of my photos and blog will have seen the exceptional beauty of West Ireland from the regularly posted photos whilst on my bike rides (and other excursions). <\/p>\n<p>You can see all these images on my personal blog (the one you&#8217;re reading now is the business\/architectural one) at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markstephens.net\" target=\"_blank\">MarkStephens.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See below for just one typical example of this gorgeousness (Lough Talt, Co. Sligo):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.markstephens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2139\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/come-to-ireland-and-buy-a-house\/lough_talt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?fit=1632%2C1224&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1632,1224\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1333273528&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000560852495794&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lough_talt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.markstephens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lough_talt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?w=1632&amp;ssl=1 1632w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lough_talt.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some have called me the unofficial tourist ambassador for the West of Ireland which got me thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I should play this card to my advantage; let&#8217;s push to get more people to visit Ireland and then when you&#8217;re here why not <strong>buy a house<\/strong>. All the better if you decide to live here but don&#8217;t worry about pricing the locals out of the market; there&#8217;s more than enough to go round and anyways most of the wrecks aren&#8217;t wanted anyways (sorry to say). Even better why not buy one of the quaintly named &#8216;Ghost houses&#8217; (a bit like ye old pirate ship) that are going dead cheap and just need a little tarting up.<\/p>\n<p>And then when you&#8217;ve bought a house and you need to do it up, why not get yourself an architect to help get you through planning and make your dream home a reality (ahem). It&#8217;s not a straightforward task and I guess my next job is to put together a fact sheet on the steps and pitfalls of buying and renovating an Irish property (so watch this space). Even if you don&#8217;t decide to buy in my locale (basically Connacht), I&#8217;d be happy to recommend other architects I would trust throughout Ireland that do similar work.<\/p>\n<p>So this isn&#8217;t one of my flippant posts, (well maybe the bit a about the ghost houses was) but if you&#8217;re interested then <a href=\"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/contact\">CONTACT ME&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faithful followers of my photos and blog will have seen the exceptional beauty of West Ireland from the regularly posted photos whilst on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,17,53,62,64,73,78],"tags":[217,327,446,695,696,748,845],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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