I had something similar a few years ago with a claimant who owned croft land in Scotland. Sitting tenant, paying a peppercorn rent, and my client had no prospect of obtaining possession unless the crofter chose to move out and couldn't raise the rent to anything realistic.
DWP were assuming it had quite a high value, since on the face of it the property and land would have made a very nice holiday home. Dealt with it by getting it valued, and the valuation was a few hundred quid, not the thousands that DWP had assumed (and I'd expected), simply because it was of no practical use to any potential purchaser for years to come.
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