Grantown's Grandview House to be auctioned off at knock-down price
One of Grantown's best known buildings is to be auctioned off with a guide price of just £260,000.
Shepherd Chartered Surveyors is set to sell Grandview House – a substantial former care home in the middle of the town's High Street – later this month.
The building dates from the late 1800s and most recently operated as a care home from 1989 until its recent closure after its owners went into administration.
Offers of more than £450,000 were being sought just last summer for the former popular Palace Hotel.
Neil Calder, partner in the Inverness office of Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, said: “The property is ripe for refurbishment and conversion, subject to securing the appropriate planning consents.
“While the property has most recently operated as a care home, other potential uses including conversion to residential flats, hotel, hostel or tourist accommodation may be possible.”
Grandview House features 45 bedrooms, mainly single occupancy with en-suite facilities and has an extensive frontage facing onto the High Street.
The administrator was brought in last March to take over the running of Grandview House and the Mains Care Home in Newtonmore.
The residents in Grantown were re-homed by NHS Highland and the doors closed.
The health authority said at the time that finding new employment for the staff at Grandview was also a priority.
Since then the large property has lain empty with calls byone prominent business group – the Federation of Small Businesses – for it to be used for tourism staff accommodation for the strath.
The selling agents state: "Grantown-on-Spey is one of the principal towns within the designated Cairngorm National Park area located 35 miles south of Inverness.
"The town lies within Spey Valley and is renowned as an all-year-round holiday destination with a vast range of hotels and guests houses together with primary and grammar schools.
"The town is also renowned for its sporting facilities, which include an 18-hole golf course, excellent salmon and trout fishing in the River Spey and facilities for other water activities, tennis, and bowling.
"The Cairngorm and Lecht mountain range as well as other winter sport facilities are within easy travelling distance."
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The property will be auctioned on Tuesday 28th February 2023 at 2.30pm with a guide price of £260,000.
Interested parties should register at: https://www.sdlauctions.co.uk/buy-property/telephone-proxy-internet-bidding/.
The online catalogue can be viewed here: https://www.shepherd.co.uk/auction-catalogue/
