Mixed Aberdeenshire farm for sale for offers over £3.92m

By Gemma Mackie

July 8 2022, 5:00 pm

Pitgersie Farm in Aberdeenshire is for sale as a whole or in three lots.

A mixed arable and livestock farm in Aberdeenshire has been launched to the market for offers over £3.92 million.

Pitgersie Farm, located near Newburgh to the north of Aberdeen, is being marketed as a whole or in three lots.

Selling agent Savills describes the 600-acre farm as an “attractive low-lying former dairy unit, which is now run as a mixed stock and arable enterprise”.

The agency said the farm’s current owners switched over from dairying to a mixed enterprise following the closure of Muller’s north-east processing plant in 2019.

It said the steading is well-equipped for housing and wintering cattle, with past and present livestock systems providing a valuable source of manure which has resulted in the farm’s soils being rich in organic matter.

Pitgersie is now run as a mixed arable and stock enterprise.

More recently the farm’s cattle have been summered away to allow the full area of arable ground to be used, with a cropping rotation comprising winter and spring barley, winter wheat, and oilseed rape.

The first lot at Pitgersie Farm – available for offers over £2.2m – comprises 304 acres of land, a range of modern farm buildings, a four-bedroom farmhouse, a three-bedroom detached bungalow, and two further cottages with a consented house site.

The second lot, which comprises 258 acres of arable land at Cothill, has a price tag of offers over £1.5m.

The third lot is a 39-acre arable field at Foveran, which is for sale for offers over £220,000.

The farm includes a range of modern buildings.

Savills said the land across all three holdings is predominantly classified as Class 3(1) and 3(2).

“Pitgersie is a very attractive unit comprising good house, good buildings and good well drained land in good heart and is a classic family farming unit which one would be proud to own,” said Luke French from Savills.

“The structure of the sale (or lotting) offers a variety of ways to purchase a stake in Pitgersie, or of course a single buyer may wish to commit to this versatile and high quality farm as a whole.

“The farm is particularly well located and thereby putting it within reach of many progressive farmers in the north-east.”