Bigyin wrote on Jun 16^th, 2011 at 12:01am:

wrote on Jun 15th, 2011 at 2:20pm: So how do you avoid these pitfalls, find a property at a realistic price and avoid being ripped of by all these people? Do you think that 1,000/acre is a realistic price ?

If as John has pointed out money can not be made then the land has no value other than as hunting ground, probably about 100 euros a hectare in that case! Land is a commodity of sorts, if you can't build on it or make money from it, it ceases to have any quantifiable value.   
So I want a piece of land to build-renovate a house on and have a smallholding and make a partial income from it, if I can't do that then the land has no value to me and I wont buy it.
What would you pay for land that you can do nothing with, why would you hand over money with no possibility of it making a return on your investment?