Equestrian Property Advice - Scotland

Noodlejaffa

Noodlejaffa

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I'm currently selling my cottage/stables and paddocks. While it's been on the market for quite a few months now, there's been zero interest in it.

Just trying to wrack my brains as to where else to advertise it as all the estate agent can seem to suggest is to spend more ££ on advertising in newspapers.

I've seen a few threads on here about the slowness of the market, but any more suggestions - particularly if they're of a Scottish lilt - would be very gratefully received!
 
when we were looking it was difficult to find places with land-those on equestrian sites were way too expensive for us, other estate agents didn't flag up the land as a selling point. Having sold and bought fairly recently I have to say that Remax have been by far the best we've ever dealt with wrt customer service and seem to be offering more rural properties these days. Properties with a fair amount of land are difficult to shift atm-banks still not lending on them.
 
The market for that kind of property seems to be flat. We know people selling a lovely equestrian property at a very reasonable price and they have had no interest. A few years ago people would have been fighting over it.
 
We're about to put ours up on the market and have been advised to expect a very quick sale. I think it depends where you are though. We are in affluent Aberdeenshire and the house itself is I think what you would call 'executive', our land is flat and of good grade (I'll have to top my buttercups though LOL). I think what is sticky is the stuff at 250-450 with either house or land issues. People often get put off by too much land so consider 'lotting up' if you have got loads as you can easily sell separately. As for advertising I would have thought ESPC or the borders equivalent? I'd probably also be going for Strutt and Parker if its nice enough as the 'white settlers' like me do use that.
 
horsemadmum1 said:
The market for that kind of property seems to be flat. We know people selling a lovely equestrian property at a very reasonable price and they have had no interest. A few years ago people would have been fighting over it.
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Totally agree, we were advised to always bid between 10-25% above the asking but that was 7 years ago. Interesting though that the one we looked at last year ended up going at £120K over asking so still a scrap for some properties, mind you it was lovely......
 
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