Purchasing a ready to use home or building your own
While purchasing all ready to use may be faster, building all on your own, all housing, fields and the entire infrastructure definitely will give you greater satisfaction.
If you plan or dream of property countryside, then look at raw land without infrastructure - more desert looking than fertile looking. Such land in available in abundance at bargain prices because most people are far too lazy to do the needed work and thus are ready to pay fantasy prices for ready to use property.
Thousands of years ago this area of Banaue has been looking comparable to a neighbor region I may introduce later with a serious of pictures in this album. Everybody wants beautiful land - nobody wants desert like looking land. Yet every desert, every dry mountain can be converted into a fertile paradise. It all depends on your readiness to work and invest efforts, creativity and resources until all project complete.
With a few of your best friends or family members together every project is far more pleasant than all on your own. Thus join with friends who agree on common ideas, idealogy, philosophy and principles as well as having extensive expertise and skills. A few years of preparation, a real professional qualification with high quality skills and expertise and some savings is all you need to succeed in having your own home with an alternative lifestyle amidst beautiful nature.