Americans, Russians
Savills recorded a drop of 6.7 percent for prime Scottish homes over the past two years, the company said.
Yester House, a Queen Anne-style Palladian structure that took almost 30 years to build, was shown to wealthy Americans, Germans, Dutch and Russians as well as potential buyers from the U.K. and Asia in the past two years, Coleman said.
A buyer at the lowered price would get less than what was originally offered. The current price doesn’t include the contents of the house and about 300 acres (121 hectares) of woodland that contain the ruins of a 13th century castle whose subterranean hall, Goblin Ha’, was written about by Walter Scott in his poem “Marmion.”
What’s more, any purchaser would have to spend as much as 500,000 pounds on restoration, and contents could add about 2 million pounds to the price tag, according to the selling agent.
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