Scottish estate is sporting man’s ‘heaven on earth’
The quiet market for land and farms has been surprised by two significant launches in Scotland this week.
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| The Dalchully Estate has extensive views of classic Highland scenery |
Agents John Clegg & Co and Ballantynes are marketing the 5000-acre Dalchully Estate at Laggan, in Inverness-shire, while Strutt & Parker has a rare instruction on the Black Isle.
The Dalchully Estate is being sold by a member of the French luxury fashion dynasty Louis Vuitton, who is moving to another Highland estate. Dalchully has a modern principal house, built in 2004, with extensive views of classic Highland scenery, as well as 5000 acres of diverse country, from Speyside pasture to heather hill land. It is presently run as a commercial sporting estate with walk-up grouse shooting and red deer stalking.
John Lambert of Clegg & Co called it a “sporting man’s heaven on earth”. “The hill ground is very pretty and the ground provides a manageable number of stags each year. There is wonderful topography, which has been used to its best to produce a top-drawer pheasant shoot, producing high curling birds which will catch out the very best shots.”
There is also good trout fishing on the River Spey. Ploughable agricultural land is currently rented to a neighbouring farmer.
Offers are invited over £4.25m for the whole, although the estate is also offered in various lots.
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| Alcaig Farm has excellent wildfowling opportunities. |
Kevin Maley of Strutt & Parker’s Inverness office is selling some of the most fertile farmland in Scotland.
Alcaig Farm is a compact block of 170 acres of arable land with about 70 acres of woodland and a traditional stone farmhouse with outbuildings.
The farm overlooks the Cromarty Firth and has excellent wildfowling opportunities.
The arable land is Grade 3 on the MacAuley land scale and the woodland is a mixture of hard and softwoods. The farm is offered in three lots. Lot 1, the 1850s-built farmhouse and gardens, is guided at £415,000. Lot 2 is a small selection of farm buildings and a yard area, priced at £130,000. Lot 3 is 170 acres of arable land, 70 acres of shore saltings and tree plantings. The guide is £825,000 for this lot or £1.45m for the farm as a whole.