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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Mickey on March 17, 2013, 04:18:43 pm

Title: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Mickey on March 17, 2013, 04:18:43 pm

Can anyone recommend a good website where smallholding or houses with a bit of land are advertised, perhaps we have it covered with the ones we watch but if there are recommended that would be helpful.  Current sites checked are Rural Scene, Zoopla and Right Move.

Thanks,
Mickey

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Clarebelle on March 17, 2013, 04:19:36 pm

we always keep an eye on greenshifters and also adtrader have had a few good ones

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Bionic on March 17, 2013, 04:28:10 pm

Mickey, keep an eye on local estate agents too. We found those in Wales had a good selection of smallholdings so I assume it will be the same elsewhere.

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Mickey on March 17, 2013, 04:30:09 pm

Thanks Clarebelle,
I found greenshifters at http://www.greenshifters.co.uk (http://www.greenshifters.co.uk) and adtrader at http://www.adtrader.co.uk (http://www.adtrader.co.uk).  I have bookmarked those for regular checking.

Mickey

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Mickey on March 17, 2013, 04:32:20 pm

Quote from: Bionic on March 17, 2013, 04:28:10 pm

Mickey, keep an eye on local estate agents too. We found those in Wales had a good selection of smallholdings so I assume it will be the same elsewhere.

Thanks Bionic,
Currently live near Manchester but we can always try contacting estate agents, I imagine they have maintain a list for emailing out new property details.

Mickey

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: plumseverywhere on March 17, 2013, 05:01:48 pm

Back pages of the smallholding mags always have a load.

we found ours by accident, bog-standard (and rather rubbish) estate agent selling 'house with land'.

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: lachlanandmarcus on March 17, 2013, 05:28:45 pm

Rural scene is another one to look at

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Mickey on March 17, 2013, 06:31:17 pm

Thanks everyone, we'll get some Smallholder mags also to look at.

Cheers,
Mickey

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Rosemary on March 17, 2013, 07:32:41 pm

If you are looking in Scotland, I'm not sure the websites mentioned are very good.

The rural estate agents - Savills, Galbraiths usually have some; Aberdeen and Northern Estates for the NE of Scotland, C&D Property Services for Dumfries and Galloway. We saw a few on Aberdein Considine in the NE of Scotland.

Oh, and Dragon Drving sometimes have some

HTH

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Dans on March 18, 2013, 07:40:06 pm

uklandandfarms

Some on mitula as well.

Dans

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: Mickey on March 18, 2013, 08:09:43 pm

Thanks everyone,
Scotland is a possibility, we are hoping to be up there next week looking around.  Will take a look at the additional sites mentioned.

Mickey

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: doganjo on March 18, 2013, 11:13:59 pm

I have a small plot in Aberdeenshire in a  small hamlet  for sale - outline planning, it's about a quarter acre but right next to a huge field that a new owner might be able to rent part of from the local farmer. I'll put a link in Marketplace

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: southernskye on March 19, 2013, 07:22:43 am

scottish solicitors property centre
 
This is a good one to look at to get a selection of "agencies" covering all areas of Scotland.
 
Good luck
Rgds
Sskye

Title: Re: Websites for Home Purchase
Post by: littlelugs on March 19, 2013, 07:37:50 am

 www.thesmallholdingcentre.co.uk (http://www.thesmallholdingcentre.co.uk)  for welsh properties. Thats where we found ours. Primelocation sometimes has good ones too.