Abramovich can buy the Swarovski family mansion in Scotland

The family of Swarovski from Austria, the owners of the world-famous company for the production of crystal products, put up for sale her estate "Gledfield" in the north-west of Scotland. The price at which this estate is sold with an area of ​​5200 acres is 7.8 million pounds.

The potential buyer of this estate can be Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire and owner of the Chelsea football club, says The Held Tribune , the article published byInopressa . According to rumors, in April Abramovich examined one of the estates in Scotland.

The Swarovski family is the second most of the family in Austria after the von Trappov family, and the condition of Swarovski is based on the production of jewelry from crystal and diamonds. Their business was founded in 1895 by Daniel Swarovski from Bohemia, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Swarovski developed a jewelry cutting machine and founded a crystal company in the Tyrol city of Vattens. Soon he acquired a reputation as a recognized master of his craft, and his jewelry became popular in many countries of the world.

During the Second World War, the companies also began to produce optics, and its binoculars and telescopes were considered one of the best in the world. Today, the surname of Swarovski has become a synonym for products from rock crystal and jewelry, and their company sells its products in different countries of the world.

Swarovski bought the Gledfield estate (which in the past belonged to Kennet Matesson, an opium merchant in the 19th century) in 1999 and invested 1 billion pounds into it.

This is one of the few estates of high -mountain Scotland, where you can hunt and go fishing - shoot a deer and partridge and catch salmon. Over the past ten years, the owners of the Gledfield estate catch an average of 38 salmon and shoot 23 deer per year. They do not touch partridges to increase the number of these birds on the estate.

The estate includes a mansion and a hunting house for 10 bedrooms, as well as eight cottages. Gledfield also has ponds in which trout is found.

The reasons why Swarovski decided to sell the estate were not called. Held Tribune, however, notes that the Swarovski family has houses in Europe and the United States and probably do not spend as much time in the Scottish estate as they initially planned.

The real estate agent from Edinburgh Jamya Maxneb ​​confirmed that rich Russian businessmen showed interest in buying a hunting estate in Scotland. Moreover, Abramovich is not the only one.

Competitors of Abramovich

If Abramovich is interested in the purchase of the Gledfield estate, he may encounter competitors.

Russian portraitist artist Nikas Safronov recently bought a castle in Scotland. Safronov, who painted portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin, actor Jack Nicholson and singer Diana Ross, said: "I have some dilapidated real estate in Scotland, which I bought, succumbing to romantic feelings. It was my childhood dream-to own something like that." There are rumors that Boris Berezovsky, who is called the first Russian billionaire, and the aluminum tycoon Oleg Lebed also look for estates in Scotland.

At the beginning of this year, the Strutt and Parker real estate agency sent one of its senior partners to Moscow to study the market prospects (potential buyers of real estate in the UK).

Another company, Ckdgalbraith, considers the idea to establish contacts with real estate agents from Moscow. “Scotland attracts many, as this is a good place for families,” says Robert Rettrey, representative of CKDGalbraith.