ECONOMIC development agency Scottish Enterprise has turned to Shepherd Chartered Surveyors to handle its latest round of property sales, writes Margaret Taylor.
Scottish Enterprise owns a broad range of properties across the country, ranging from undeveloped land and technology parks to commercial premises and business parks.
The proceeds from the sales will form part of the agency’s general income and will be used to supplement the grants it receives from the Government as well as any returns it makes from equity investments and disposals.
Sandy Lightbody, head of agency in Glasgow for Shepherd, said the latest portfolio being marketed “contains several interesting sites, some of which undoubtedly have development value”.
Among the assets being sold are a nine-acre site next to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank and a former Ministry of Defence site near the Auchentoshan Distillery in Old Kilpatrick.
A spokesperson for Scottish Enterprise said a site close to Lomond Shores in Balloch would also be sold.
“We have a planning application in for a leisure development and haver a preferred developer that will take that forward,” she said. “It’s about contributing to the economic development of Scotland.”
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