…the blog and website of Andy Wightman
The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land was established under Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 to provide greater transparency on who owns land. It requires partnerships, trusts, unincorporated bodies and overseas entities to
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Following on from Alan Brown’s guest blog on who really owns Craiganour Estate, I now dig into who is really behind North Glen Estates Ltd., the other entity currently being investigated by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for
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This Guest blog from Alan Brown is the first of two which question whether the two transparency regimes operating in Scotland – the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI) and the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)
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NORTH GLEN ESTATE LTD On 6 May 2025, I published a blog highlighting the fact that the owner of North Glenbuchat Estate, North Glen Estate Ltd., an overseas entity registered in the Turks and Caicos Islands, had failed to register
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On Wednesday this week, Savills announced the “sale” of the 8800 hectare Tulchan Estate in Morayshire at offers over £67 million. Newspapers have reported the “sale” today (see above extracts from the Herald and the Times). But Tulchan Estate is
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SCOTLAND’S CONCENTRATED PATTERN OF LANDOWNERSHIP CONTINUES TO GET WORSE Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, the second annual report on landownership in Scotland. The first (Who Owns Scotland 2024) was published in March 2025. In addition to a high
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Today I publish my annual analysis of large-scale rural land sales in 2024. It follows earlier reports for 2020-22 and for 2023. One of the key issues raised in the report and in this blog is covered by the Guardian
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The Glengarry Community Development Trust is a dynamic and successful community body based in Invergarry, Inverness-shire. It owns a 37 ha community woodland with a tourism accommodation and firewood business. In 2022, it acquired a further 47 ha of woodland
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Regular readers will recall the defamation case brought against me in 2017 by Wildcat Haven Enterprises CIC (WHE) seeking damages of £750,000. The latest news for those of you who kindly contributed to my crowdfunder is that WHE has now
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Regular readers will recall my blog of 21 November 2025 where I expose the growing practice of entering “Implementation of Missives” as the consideration in deeds transferring ownership of land in Scotland. The practice is prevalent particularly in what appear
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