General Remarks & Stipulations

Services

The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all existing private and mains services including electricity, drainage and water.

Property Council Tax Drainage Water Glazing Heating EPC Tenure

Lawers House H Private Mains Single Oil CH F30 Owner Occupied

Wilderness Cottage NDR Private Mains Partial Oil CH G13 Vacant

Burnside Cottage C Private Mains Full Electric CH F28 SAT

Gate Lodge NDR Private Mains Single None N/A Vacant

The Granary Flat C Private Mains Double Dual (Mineral and wood) E39 PRT

Grooms Flat A Private Mains Double Electric F37 Service Occupancy

Loch Cottage E Private Mains Partial Mains Gas CH E53 PRT

Park Lodge F Private Mains Partial Mains Gas CH D57 PRT

Gardeners Cottage E Private Mains Single Oil CH F34 Owner Occupied

HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MACHINERY, VEHICLES ETC.

The buyer will have the option to purchase some of the contents of Lawers House, the garden machinery and equipment, selected vehicles and an assortment of tools and implements. An inventory of the items available for purchase may be made available via a secure digital data room.

The fitted carpets and light fittings are included in the sale of the other residential properties beyond Lawers House.

Clawback Agreement

Subject to the detail contained in offers received, the seller may seek the inclusion of a clawback arrangement over all or part of the property.

Viewing

Strictly by prior agreement with the selling agents. For the personal safety of interested parties, please be aware of potential hazards at the property as this is a working estate. Likewise for the equestrian buildings and land as they may be in temporary use for livery or livestock handling.

Offers

Offers in Scottish Legal Form should be submitted to the Selling Agents at their Perth office. Parties are asked to satisfy themselves that they fully understand the implication of offering under Scottish Law.

Closing Date

A closing date may be fixed, and prospective purchasers are advised to formally register their interest through their solicitors with the selling agents. Prospective purchasers should be aware that unless their interest in the property is formally noted, no guarantee can be given that confirmation of a closing date will be provided, consequently the property may be sold without prior notice. For the avoidance of doubt, noting interest only entitles prospective purchasers to notification of a closing date being set and not that other potentially competing pre-emptive offers have been received. The sellers are entitled to accept any offer at any time.

Date Of Entry

To be mutually agreed in writing.

Title

Should there be any discrepancy between these particulars, stipulations, special conditions of sale and missives of sale the last shall prevail.

Tenure

Absolute Ownership Interest (Freehold)

Deposit

A deposit of 10% of the purchase price will become payable to the seller within 14 days after conclusion of missives. Interest at 5% above the Bank of Scotland base rate shall be payable on the purchase price from the date of entry until paid and that notwithstanding that the purchaser may not have taken entry. If the purchaser fails to make payment within 28 days of the date of entry with all accrued interest, the seller shall be entitled to resile from the missives and resell the subjects of sale without prejudice to his rights and recover damages from the purchaser.

FINANCIAL GUARANTEE/ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS

Any offer by prospective purchaser(s), regardless of where they are ordinarily resident and regardless whether on a cash or subject to loan finance basis, must be accompanied by a financial reference from a bank/funding source that is acceptable to the sellers. Prospective purchasers will also be required to produce identification sufficient to satisfy anti money laundering regulations and checks against the intended purchaser or nominee together with other documentation that may be required, from time to time, in order to support any conditional offers submitted to the seller. Bidwells LLP accepts no liability of any type arising from your delay or other lack of co-operation in this regard. Failure to provide the requisite AML documentation with offers may result in them not being considered at the closing date or being superseded by an offer which is. Settlement may also be delayed or aborted due to non-compliance with requests for information or failure to deliver adequate information within the requisite timeframes. We may hold your name on our database unless you instruct us otherwise.

Warranties

There are no warranties or guarantees included with this sale.

Vat

In the event of a charge to VAT being made on the whole or any part of the purchase price or the movable items, the purchaser will be responsible for meeting the VAT liability.

Apportionments

The Council Tax, Sporting Rates, Commercial Rates and all other outgoings shall be apportioned between the seller and the purchaser(s) as at the date of entry.

Basic Payment Scheme Entitlements

The sale does not include Basic Payment Scheme Entitlements.

Ingoing Valuation

The purchaser(s), in addition to the purchase price, will be obliged to take over and pay for at a valuation to be agreed between two valuers, one acting for each party, or an arbiter appointed by the valuers, or failing agreement as to the appointment by the President, for the time being, of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Scottish Branch), the following items so far as belonging to the seller and not excluded by the seller from the sale:

1. All cultivations carried out in preparation for the current crop valued on a labour and machinery basis.

2. All growing crops, on a seeds, labour, lime, fertiliser, sprays and machinery basis with an increment representing the enhanced value of the establishment and age of such crops.

3. All hay, straw, fodder, roots, silage and farmyard manure and other produce at market value.

4. All oils, fuel, fertilisers, sprays, chemicals, seeds and sundry at cost.

Note: If the amount of the valuations has not been agreed on the date fixed for completion, then the purchaser shall pay to the seller such a sum as the selling agents shall certify on account at their valuation pending agreement. Should the payment not be made within seven days then interest will become payable on outstanding monies at 5% over Bank of Scotland borrowing rate.

PURCHASER’S OBLIGATIONS

Fencing demarking the boundary of the property is generally to be maintained at the purchaser’s expense in perpetuity. New fencing required to demark currently unfenced sections of the new boundary must be stockproof and will be erected and thereafter maintained at the purchaser’s expense in perpetuity.

Third Party Rights

The sellers are not aware of any third-party rights over the property other than:

• A wayleave in favour of SSE for overhead transmission cable.

• A wayleave in favour of Scottish Water for a mains pipe(s).

• The neighbouring Estate have right of access over the driveway to Lot 1 and the access track coloured brown to the west

• A core path runs along dismantled railway line from Crieff to Comrie along the River Earn to the south of the farmland.

• A burial ground to the northeast of Lawers House to which relatives of those buried there retain rights of access.

The property is also sold subject to the rights of public access under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

The purchaser(s) will be held to have satisfied themselves as to the nature of all such servitude rights and others.

Employees

There are currently 5 employees at Lawers Estate, a full-time estate secretary, a contractor/handyman, a part-time housekeeper and two part time grooms. If a sale proceeds, it is the seller’s firm preference that the employees are transferred to the purchaser or their nominee under the Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE) Regulations.

ENVIRONMENTAL, HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNATIONS

There is a scheduled monument at the north of Lot 6b being the Lawers Standing Stone which is noted to be prehistoric. It is being re-scheduled to ensure adequate protection is given to probable archaeological remains around the stone. It comprises a solitary standing stone measuring about 2m high by about 1.2m in maximum width.

Lawers House is Category A listed (LB18152) Walled Garden is Category B listed (LB18154)

MINERAL, SPORTING AND TIMBER RIGHTS

In so far as they are owned, the mineral and sporting rights are included in the sale. All standing and fallen timber is included in the sale.

Lotting

It is intended to offer the property for sale as described, but the seller reserves the right to divide the property into additional lots, to withdraw the property, or to exclude any part of the property shown in these particulars. In the event that the property is sold in lots, title conditions may be created for access and provision / maintenance of service media and any new boundary fences required as a result that may need to be erected. The seller may also reserve as necessary out of the sale, such rights of access and rights to services necessary to facilitate retained development opportunities.

PLANS, AREAS AND SCHEDULES

These are based on the Ordnance Survey and are for reference only. While they have been carefully checked, the purchaser shall be deemed to have satisfied themselves as to the description of the property and any error or mis-statement shall not annul the sale nor entitle either party to compensation in respect thereof. Prospective parties are asked to satisfy themselves on inspecting the titles which take precedence over the marketing materials.

Disputes

Should any discrepancy arise as to the boundaries or any points arise out of the General Remarks and Stipulations or Plan or the interpretation of any of them, the question shall be referred to the arbitration of selling agents whose decision acting as experts, shall be final.

Data Room

Further information on specific elements of the property, including any leases, title information, contracts of employment, sporting records etc. will be available via an online data room to those who have formally noted their interest with the selling agent and signed a standard nondisclosure agreement having booked an appointment to undertake an accompanied viewing of the Estate. Details on how to access the data room will be made available by the selling agent in due course.

Virtual tours of Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5 are available without the need for an NDA, by request.

Local Authority

Perth & Kinross Council

Pullar House

35 Kinnoull St

Perth

PH1 5GD

Tel: 01738 475000

Selling Agent

Ross Low Bidwells

Broxden House

Lamberkine Drive

Perth

PH1 1RA

Tel: 01738 630666

Email: scotlandagency@bidwells.co.uk or ross.low@bidwells.co.uk

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