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Kinross House is a Category A listed building, and its grounds are listed in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The grounds cover 100 acres of formal gardens and woodland, also including Castle Island on Loch Leven .
The Scottish Government Land Reform Review Group's The land of Scotland and the common good: report (2004) succinctly summarises common good property: "Section 14: Common Good Lands. A special type of property owned by local authorities in Scotland, which is legally distinct from all the other property which they own, is Common Good Funds ...
Council Tax in Scotland is a tax on domestic property which was introduced across Scotland in 1993, along with England and Wales, following passage of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. It replaced the Community Charge (popularly known as the Poll Tax). Each property is assigned one of eight bands (A to H) based on property value, and the ...
The gap between average income and average housing prices changed between 1985 and 2015 from twice an average salary to up to six times average income. Median house prices in London the median house now cost up to 12 times the median London salary. In 1995, the median house price was £83,000, 4.4 times the median income.
The Castle and grounds were sold in 2024 for £25,000,000.00. The new owner of Dunbeath Castle is a company called Dunbeath Estates Limited, whose sole director is Don Macleod. The identity of the buyer was hidden through a legal loophole involving trusts and company filings.
On 16 March 2005 it was announced that the Douglas Miller family were in advanced negotiations to sell the business to the House of Fraser, at an estimated price of £100–200 million, [citation needed] but a month later it was sold for £46.1 million. [1] While other acquisitions by House of Fraser had been renamed, Jenners kept its identity. [8]
House of Memsie (also known as Mesmie House) is a Category A listed [3] country house and estate in Memsie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It dates to around 1760, and it received its historic designation in 1971. [1] It was formerly the home of the Fraser family for over three hundred years. [4] It was sold to Lord Saltoun in the early 19th century. [4]
The Church of Scotland ceased holding regular worship in June 2017 and, after an unsuccessful search for a community use, the church was sold in 2019. The church was sold again by auction in November 2021, achieving a price of £40,000. The new owner intended to convert the structure into a family home.