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Craiglockhart Post Office & also consider a suitable freehold offer. The Christie + Co is seeking £70,000 for the
Newsagent in Edinburgh is post office is secure from the current leasehold interest of the business, with an
offered for sale closures and the shop sales are backed up annual rent of £15,000 and the freehold
After nine years of ownership, Amar Ali by some newspaper deliveries.” price will be given on application.
has appointed the Edinburgh Office of lead-
ing business agents, Christie + Co, to sell
Craiglockhart Post Office & Newsagent,
which is located on Colinton Road; one of
the main arterial routes into Edinburgh city
centre.
The business occupies a unit within a
parade of shops and is fitted out in a tradi-
tional newsagency style offering approxi-
mately 700 sq ft of sales area, with a two-
position post office counter. There is a
storage area in the basement, along with a
kitchenette area and staff facilities. The
shop offers a wide range of products,
including stationery, children’s toys, greet-
ings cards, confectionary, tobacco, sand-
wiches and soft drinks, as well as additional
services, such as the National Lottery,
photocopying and dry cleaning.
David Higgins, from Christie + Co’s
Edinburgh Office, who is handling the sale,
commented; “Craiglockhart Post Office &
Newsagent has long been established in the
area and the vendor is ideally looking for a
tenant to take over the leasehold, but may
Drumbeg Stores up for sale by the current owners. The store offers post Lochinver.
Drumbeg Stores and its attached three office facilities, a grocery and an off licence The current owners have redecorated the
bedroom cottage have been put up for sale and is found approximately 15 miles from house, refitted the shop and installed a new
boiler and four new chill/freeze units. They
have also built a new shed and a summer-
house with decking which overlooks Loch
Drumbeg.
In the four years they have owned the
shop they have doubled turnover (£154 000
gross during the previous financial year
ended March 2008) and generally turned
the business round to the extent that in
December 2006 it was awarded the acco-
lade of ‘Best Village Shop in Scotland’ in a
national competition run by the Daily Tele-
graph, Farmer’s Weekly and the Countryside
Alliance.
Drumbeg is a mecca for wild brown trout
anglers and the permits sold in the shop
cover some 250 lochs. The village has a
hotel with attached pub and restaurant
which is open all year round.
The sale is being conducted by Murray
Beith Murray WS who are available to
contact on 0131 225 1200.
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