🏡Property Highlights:
Price: £399000
Bedrooms: 2
Acres: 8
Location: Hebrides | Great Bernera | HS2
🏡How Claire Describes His Property:
One level large, modern build on Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Very high spec build (very thick insulation in loft, walls and floors, triple glazed, storm rated windows etc)
Multi fuel fire
Superfast broadband FTP
249m² of living space
8 acres of decrofted land (means you own outright, not a tenant)
Most of the land used to be worked, so lazybeds and drainage etc
Own waterfront access via pebble beach to Loch Roag – wild swimming!
Tidal sheltered mooring
Double detached garage
Big polycrub
Semi derelict whitehouse and blackhouse (one with new roof)
Waterfall and stream
Established fruit trees (including apple, cherry, plum and pear) and fruit bushes
Reed beds for black water (not mains or septic tank that needing emptying)
Thousands of willow planted for windbreak and firewood
Loads of other trees also planted for diversity (oak, ash, alder, hawthorn, holly.)
Two huge bedrooms (easy to partition and create 2 more rooms)
Two big bathrooms (both en-suite to existing bedrooms)
Perfect for division into multi generational living.
If you’d like more info about the house, land or location, please get in touch
Good afternoon,
I was interested in your property and have a few questions if you don’t mind please?
*Does the land you own/are selling go right down to the shore?
*Do you have a building warrant for all the work that haas been done and do you have a completion certificate?
*You mention that all the 8 acres has been decrofted, so presumably this is not a croft any longer?
* can you send us a copy of the home report please.
Best regards
Malcolm
P.S. I am not on any social media at all so cannot link to any other links that you post.
So, yes the land goes all the way down to the water.
Yes, there’s a completion certificate and all relevant paperwork for the build- there’s been no work done since it was built, so that keeps things simple
Correct, this is not a Croft- it’s owned land, rather than a tenancy.
Home Report on the way
I’ve had several people now asking for the Home Report, so I’ve attached them and said the same things to them as I’m putting below for you:
The surveyor has put a value of £350k, but this doesn’t take into account the added value of what we’ve done to the land – the trees, the planting in general, the stream, the mooring, the Loch access, ths fact its decrofted etc. Essentially, if the exact same house was on a land- locked croft, he’d have valued it at the same price point. We believe the outside adds extra value, so we’re happy with a fixed price of £399k, which is what we’re marketing in at. Add onto that the fact he’s from the mainland, and doesn’t know the local markets as well as he could – the local estate agents values are around the £375k point, and they do have a tendency to undervalue for quick sales…
With regards the EPC, the estimated costs for electricity are much higher too – once again, they just use a simple algorithm mixing up square footage and heating methods, without taking into consideration the house itself. We pay electricity monthly of £250, which covers hot water, lighting and electricity for cooking. Much lower than the EPC estimates…
View Home Report
View EPC Report
Claire 😀