Castle Douglas clock tower flat to be handed over to new owners in early 2024
dailyrecord.co.ukA flat in Castle Douglas is finally set to be handed over to its new owners – four years after it went on the market. The property in the town’s clock tower was put up for sale in 2020, being sold to South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH) for £70,000.
More than £220,000 has been spent on refurbishing the property – which the council’s homelessness service stopped using in 2010 – with a further £56,000 coming from council funds at the start of 2023 to fix a dry rot problem.
The council’s let property officer Nik Lane told the latest meeting of the common good sub committee it had been difficult to find someone to do the work but contractors had been on site that day.
It was hoped that by the end of January work would be completed on a King Street shop that forms part of the building and the flat would be ready for the conclusion of the sale.
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