What you'll find
Older houses and terraces around the town centre and the hill up to the courthouse, established estates and newer developments on the edges of town, and a large number of one-off rural houses, farms and building sites across west Tyrone.
Who buys here
Local families and first-time buyers, people working in health, education and public services, farming families, and people coming home to build near where they grew up.
Getting about
There's no railway. The A5 runs north to Strabane and Derry and south towards the border, and Belfast is around an hour and a quarter by road via the M1.
Mortgage points to note
- Self-build mortgages. Building your own home is common here. Lenders release money in stages, usually after the valuer has checked each stage, so you need some cash to get each stage started.
- Rural houses. Septic tanks, private wells and farm-occupancy conditions are routine out in the country. Lendable, but with a narrower lender list and sometimes a specialist valuation.
- Farm and family business income. Lenders look at farm accounts in different ways. Some will count subsidy payments and some won't.
- Flood risk. Some low-lying land near the rivers carries a flood designation. Lenders and insurers check this, so ask early.
Nearby
See also Strabane, Enniskillen, Dungannon and Cookstown.
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