Real estate agents help clients buy, sell, and rent residential and commercial properties. To protect our partners we blocked these queries, we will restore them as soon as possible. We have detected that you could be doing automatic requests from a virus infected computer or from an abusive shared IP address. For example, many barn conversions attract buyers because they’re situated in beautiful rural locations-places where you would never achieve planning permission to build a new house these days. That said, the pros and cons of living in a barn conversion are dependent to a large extent on the character of your chosen building and the quality of the conversion work. Converted barns have always had a special place in our hearts, but after Joanna and Chip Gaines coined the term “barndominium” on their HGTV series Fixer Upper, this type of unique home quickly soared in popularity across the country.