Highland Home for Sale

"Money a mickle maks a muckle"

Saving a small amount soon builds up to a large amount

but will it be enough to buy Scotland's Ackergill Tower?

Hang on to your haggis - for stately Ackergill's asking price is
GBP £5,000,000 (8.2 million American). A Realtor's ® dream!

Ackergill Tower is just five minutes from Wick Airport which now benefits from multiple no frills scheduled flights into Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Inverness and then on to Wick with either Flybe/Loganair from Edinburgh or with Eastern Airways from Aberdeen.

Depart from London Heathrow via Edinburgh at 08:00 and be here in plenty of time for lunch, and when you leave Wick at 12:00 you will be back in Heathrow at 17:20.

With the Tower's million dollar price tag, you would become the
host of a ghost.
It is believed that the ghost of Helen Gunn haunts the castle, who was the
daughter of an opposing family. When she was kidnapped at age
15 she jumped to her death from the battlements of the tower.

Ackergill Tower, a historic estate dating to 1476, is on Sinclair’s Bay in the northeast corner of the Scottish Highlands. It was expanded significantly around 1850.The estate is three miles from the town of Wick, where there are shops and an airport, and approximately 105 miles north of Inverness, which is known informally as the capital of the Scottish Highlands.

The estate has about 30 acres, including a Victorian walled
garden, formal lawns, woodlands and waterfront land with
five miles of sandy beach

There are also remains of a medieval moat that once surrounded the castle

The purchase also includes an opera house (once the coach house), an approximately 1,100-square-foot tree house (with a deck, dining room and kitchen), and seven more guest rooms in various outbuildings, some of which were once kennels and a blacksmith shop

Your buying approximately 12,000 square feet of Scottish Castle

Owned by only three families over five centuries,
the castle retains a medieval aura

Ackergill has 17 bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath

The furnishings, which are included in the sale, are mostly original
to the castle and include tapestries and Persian rugs

WHO BUYS IN THE HIGHLANDS?
Among non-Scottish buyers, the English are the most common, followed by other Europeans.
states Reg MacDonald, the regional director of Re/Max Scotland.

If you are to live in the Highlands, you will certainly need to practice
your Scottish sayings.
Repeat after me ~

• Fit Like? - An Aberdeen greeting, meaning how are you?
  
• Dinnae fash yersel - Don't trouble yourself.
• You're a long time deid - Enjoy life now.
• A dinna ken - I don't know.
  
• Dinna fash yersel - Don't worry
• Nae Problem - No problem

Do you love a good history lesson? Read about the great sand heist of Ackergill at odd.scotland.com.
Fascinating story of the the beach being ancient burial grounds for the Vikings.

To purchase this stately home contact

John Coleman @ Knight Frank, 011-44-131-222-9600; www.knightfrank.co.uk

Want to test sleep before you buy? Stay a wee whiley at the edge of the sea; rates and information are found here.

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Gin a body meet a body

Comin thro' the rye,

Gin a body kiss a body,

Need a body cry?

Robert Burns

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credits; ackergill-tower.co.uk; allgreatquotes.com; nytimes.com; odd.scotland.com; knightfrank.co.uk; theinspiredroom.wordpress; scotlanddreaming.com