Land reform campaigners are alarmed at the increasing use of a legal loophole that allows landowners to conceal the price paid for Highland estates from the public register.
Andy Wightman, a land reform analyst, said the loophole meant the prices paid in more than £300m-worth of Highland property transactions were not disclosed on the register.
Discovery Land Company, an Arizona-based luxury resort operator building a Highland resort at Taymouth in Perthshire, used the mechanism when it paid £21.4m in 2022 for the adjacent Glenlyon estate, famous for its hill walks and deer stalking.
Wightman’s latest sales survey reports that Oxygen Conservation, the “capitalist” rewil
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