You are buying a rental property and will be a long-distance landlord?
Bad idea in my opinion – owning/managing rentals is challenging enough when they are local
Another poster, I believe ‘surveyor’, will tell you otherwise – evidently he is having luck getting cashflow from distant properties although he is doing multi-unit stuff not single-family
I question whether the market is really ‘fairly active’ if the house was available at $265K but didn’t sell