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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: Womble on April 13, 2014, 12:10:04 pm

Title: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: Womble on April 13, 2014, 12:10:04 pm
I drove past this cottage yesterday and saw it was for sale (http://www.clydeproperty.co.uk/property.aspx?ar=BB7383).

Right underneath Conic Hill and a 2 minute walk from Loch Lomondside (just North of Balmaha Hill for anybody who knows the area).

(http://media.ukhomesearch.co.uk/?id=84545&fileName=bb7383-01.jpg&width=900&height=600&crop=false&noimage=http://clydeproperty.mywebapplication.com/images/no-image-clyde.jpg)

Stunning potential for anybody looking for a smallholding, and a cottage I've long admired from a distance (though judging from the close-ups, this may well be the best way to view it  ;D ). O/O £175K including just under 3 acres of land (http://media.ukhomesearch.co.uk/original/84545/doc/bb7383.pdf).

(http://media.ukhomesearch.co.uk/?id=84545&fileName=bb7383-03.jpg&width=900&height=600&crop=false&noimage=http://clydeproperty.mywebapplication.com/images/no-image-clyde.jpg)

Title: Re: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: Herdygirl on April 13, 2014, 10:17:48 pm
I think you are right Womble, it never fails to amaze me what people think their property is worth.
Title: Re: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: shygirl on April 13, 2014, 10:37:31 pm
its lovely  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: Womble on April 13, 2014, 11:56:29 pm
TBH Herdygirl, given the location, I'm surprised it's not priced at twice that. My gut feeling is that it will sell pretty quickly at that price, though I agree with you - house prices no longer have any connection to reality in the UK.
Title: Re: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: AndynJ on April 14, 2014, 08:44:10 am
Tiny building plot in EX7 Devon £300,000 with shared drive hardly any garden on a main road.

Farmhouse requiring major renovation £990,000 about an acre

2 bed run down semi 7 metres off main road (rather noisey) with 8 acres £500,000

4 bed detached shared drive tiny garden main road £400,000

Agricultural land grade 1 is £10k an acre, woodland £7-£10k

My wife said last night when we finally retire  :thinking: we will move to Wales  :thumbsup:
We will be able to afford what we want in Wales

Yes that cottage is pretty
Title: Re: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: ellied on April 14, 2014, 11:22:36 am
I'd have looked at it a few years ago but I need more than 3 acres by a long way, especially if it's grade 4..  Lovely area, but you'd want to put up a lot of secure fencing to keep out the walkers more than deer, Lomond is overrun with tourists who take right to roam a little to excess on occasion ;)
Title: Re: Smallholding For Sale, Balmaha, Loch Lomondside
Post by: Anke on April 14, 2014, 11:30:19 am
If it is within the are of the National park you will struggle to put up any agri buildings, probably no polytunnel or similar... I don't think it's meant for smallholders somehow... commuting distance to Glasgow?