If a Town Hall Costs £1, How Much Is My Garage Worth? An Investigation
Our property columnist applies Pitlochry logic to the rest of Perthshire and is alarmed.
Garages of Perth: newly valued in coppers. Photo: Daniel Case, “Window and door on weathered garage wall”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Following the news that Pitlochry Town Hall is to change hands for £1, I have been revaluing everything I own, and the results are frightening.
My garage, which has a leak, a slanted door and a mouse called Kenneth, is now worth approximately 4p. My shed, 1p. My car, by comparison, is a blue-chip asset, because it has fuel in it.
Let me be clear: the Pitlochry deal is a great thing for a community that will love that hall properly, and well done them. But the rest of us now live in a property market where a building with a stage is a pound and a Perth city-centre parking space is £2.50 an hour.
I have put my garage on the market at 50p. Kenneth comes free.
The real story: Pitlochry Town Hall £1 sale (The Courier)
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