The top and bottom of the market · Highlands and Islands
The dearest home asks £17m. The cheapest, £15,000.
You could buy the 220 cheapest homes for sale here, all of them, for what the dearest one asks. A typical home asks £235,000. 34 homes ask £1 million or more; 68 ask under £75,000.
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A tour of the top
7 of the 10 dearest homes come with a thousand acres or more.
No. 1£17,000,000Aberchalder and Glengarry Estates, Aberchalder, Invergarry, Highland, PH35 4HN
4 bed · 18,784 acres
Loch viewsWoodlandOutbuildingsOpen fires
No. 2£9,000,000Glengorm, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, PA75 6QE
18 bed · 3,702 acres · On an island
Sea viewsA private mooringWoodlandPaddocksA cellarA range cooker
No. 3£7,500,000Morvich Estate, Rogart, Sutherland, IV28 3XB
9 bed · 4,885 acres
Sea viewsA listed buildingWoodlandPaddocksAn annexeOutbuildings
What a fortune buys
Numbers 4 to 9 ask £4m to £6m.
What the twelve dearest have most often, by their adverts and photographs: woodland (11 of 12), open fires (11 of 12), period features (11 of 12).
No. 4£6,000,000
Glenmoriston, Inverness, Highland, IV63 7YW
8 bed · 11,812 acres · Loch views · Woodland
No. 5£5,540,000
The Whole - Mounteagle Estate, Fearn, Tain, Ross-Shire, IV20 1RP
784 acres · A private mooring · Woodland
No. 6£4,500,000
Ullapool, Ross-Shire, IV26 2TW
7,807 acres · Sea views · Loch views
No. 7£4,400,000
Ness-side Estate, Inverness, Inverness-shire, IV2 6DH
6 bed · 17 acres · Woodland · An annexe
No. 8£4,000,000
Isle of Lewis, Eilean Siar, HS2 9JL
6 bed · 8,202 acres · On an island · Sea views · Mountain views
No. 9£3,950,000
Glenborrodale, Acharacle, Highland, PH36 4JP
16 bed · 134 acres · Sea views · Loch views
The bottom of the market
The cheapest home for sale asks £15,000.
A 2-bedroom flat on Shore Street, Campbeltown.
10 of the 50 cheapest homes for sale are around Campbeltown; the next most, 7, around Lochgilphead.
£15,000The cheapest home for sale · 2 bed
What sets them apart
The dearest tenth of homes are 7 times as likely to come with an acre or more of land as the cheapest tenth.
36.7% of the dearest tenth come with an acre or more of land, against 5.1% of the cheapest tenth.
| The cheapest tenth 350 homes | The dearest tenth 349 homes | |
|---|---|---|
| Asking | £15k to £110k | £475k to £17m |
| Bedrooms, typically | 2 | 5 |
| Detached | 26.6% | 90.8% |
| Flats | 48.9% | 3.7% |
| With an acre or more | 5.1% | 36.7% |
| With a sea view | 14% | 36.1% |
| With a loch view | 5.4% | 19.5% |
| On an island | 16.6% | 12% |
| Drive to the nearest town | 3 min | 9 min |
The price ladder
Under £100k buys a typical 2-bedroom home; £1m and over, 7 bedrooms.
Under £100k
typically 2 bed · 27.3% detached · 4.9% with an acre or more · 13.9% with a sea view
267homes
£100k to £200k
typically 2 bed · 37.4% detached · 3% with an acre or more · 13.6% with a sea view
1,137homes
£200k to £350k
typically 3 bed · 73.1% detached · 7.6% with an acre or more · 19.5% with a sea view
1,258homes
£350k to £500k
typically 4 bed · 89.5% detached · 16.9% with an acre or more · 31% with a sea view
532homes
£500k to £1m
typically 5 bed · 90.9% detached · 34% with an acre or more · 33.6% with a sea view
265homes
£1m and over
typically 7 bed · 88.2% detached · 88.2% with an acre or more · 52.9% with a sea view
34homes
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