‘Beautiful’ Scottish island is up for auction with a bid of $ 111,000

‘Beautiful’ Scottish island is up for auction with a bid of $ 111,000

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(CNN) – As people spend more time indoors than ever before due to lock-in improvements, many have reconsidered their life choices and wanted to move to more spacious accommodation.

And urbanites who want to flee to the countryside may be lucky.

An auction house is selling a whole rough Scottish island for an opening bid of £ 80,000 ($ 111,700), an amount that not even a small apartment in London would buy.

Deer Island, in the Scottish Highlands, boasts 11 acres of land and is “situated” in a “beautiful and tranquil” loch on the “dramatic” west coast of Scotland, auctioneers Future Property said in the sale list.

The uninhabited island, to Loch Moidart, is a space that can be enjoyed a chance of intrusion, ‘Future Property said.

It’s being sold after being owned by the same family for 500 years, property manager Stephen McCluskey told CNN on Thursday.

The future owner will be a distant neighbor of the family of British businessman Richard Branson, whose sister Vanessa Branson owns Eilean Shona – the closest island to Deer Island, McCluskey said.

‘They use it as a business – Eilean Shona is bigger, significantly bigger, but they have chalets and a refuge there where a number of celebrities are going to stay, “McCluskey added.

Closer neighbors will include red squirrels, seals and the occasional dolphin.

In the area is also the striking castle Tioram, built in the 13th century and now laid in rubble.

Deer Island is near Castle Tioram, pictured, dating from the 13th century.

Deer Island is near Castle Tioram, pictured, dating from the 13th century.

Future real estate auctions

‘It’s really rock and tree at the moment – there’s nothing to it – and has never been anything [built] on it, or any application to have something on it, ‘McCluskey said of Deer Island.

“There is nothing. It has been uninhabited for 500 years.”

The online auction takes place on March 26, but McCluskey has already registered interest, among others from someone who wants to park their yacht somewhere and from another person who wants to use it as a base for kayaking, he said.

The buyer must seek appropriate planning permits to build anything on the island, McCluskey added.

He expects the land to sell for between £ 150,000 and £ 200,000 ($ 209,000 – $ 279.00).

“With something like that, you get different kinds of buyers – you get overseas investors, wealthy landowners, and you get the romantics who fall in love with the idea of ​​owning a Scottish island,” he said.

Brokers and travel industry experts told CNN last year that they had seen an increase in prospective buyers and tenants fleeing to an exclusive island since the start of the pandemic.
Islands offered for sale in the past year included Little Ragged Island in the Bahamas, with 730 acres of rolling wooded hills and pristine white beaches, listed at a minimum price of $ 19.5 million.

In July, an unnamed European buyer snapped up an island of 157 acres southwest of the Irish mainland for $ 6 million. Horse Island, which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, was sold after negotiations mostly took place over WhatsApp.

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