Andy Wightman
Following recent posts about my attempts to secure prosecutions for those failing to register the controlling interest in land, I am pleased to see that the Ferret has published an important analysis of the Register of Controlled Persons in Land. The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled...
Andy Wightman
Readars may be aware that I run the Who Owns Scotland website. It is funded by subscriptions and so if you do not already subscribe, I can thoroughly recommend it. Every month I check records from one year past and update them as required. And so last month I found myself updating records I...
Andy Wightman
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the efforts that Alan Brown and myself have made to ensure that people who flout transparency rules are held accountable before the law. You can read the key blogs here, here, here, here, here, here and here. BACKGROUND The Register of Persons...
Andy Wightman
The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land was established under Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 to provide greater transparency on who owns land. It requires partnerships, trusts, unincorporated bodies and overseas entities to register details of the recorded...
Andy Wightman
Following on from Alan Brown’s guest blog on who really owns Craiganour Estate, I now dig into who is really behind North Glen Estates Ltd., the other entity currently being investigated by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for offences under the Register of Persons Holding a...
Andy Wightman
This Guest blog from Alan Brown is the first of two which question whether the two transparency regimes operating in Scotland – the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI) and the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) – are in fact revealing the beneficial owners of offshore...
Andy Wightman
NORTH GLEN ESTATE LTD On 6 May 2025, I published a blog highlighting the fact that the owner of North Glenbuchat Estate, North Glen Estate Ltd., an overseas entity registered in the Turks and Caicos Islands, had failed to register as a recorded person in the Register of Persons Holding a...
Andy Wightman
On Wednesday this week, Savills announced the “sale” of the 8800 hectare Tulchan Estate in Morayshire at offers over £67 million. Newspapers have reported the “sale” today (see above extracts from the Herald and the Times). But Tulchan Estate is not for sale and its ownership is not going to...