The highest value farm to come up for sale in Aberdeenshire is under offer after seven weeks on the market.
Easter Auquharney, near Hatton at Peterhead, was presented to the marketed by CKD Galbraith.
For sale as a whole, or in six lots, the farm carried a price tag of offers over £6.335million.
CKD Galbraith partner Tom Stewart, who has been handling the sale from the firm’s Aberdeen office, said the farm was now under offer at a premium above the asking price.
He was unable to reveal the details of the buyer, but said they were Scottish.
The sale of the 1,659.95-acre farm includes a five-bedroom farmhouse, two-bedroom cottage, and a range of farm buildings.
It comprises a 1,000-acre cereals enterprise, rotational grass leys and a cattle finishing business which handles about 1,100 beasts per year.
The majority of the land is Grade 3 (2) and “high yields” have been reported for crops of malting barley, wheat and oilseed rape. In the past the ground has also been used to grow potatoes.
Mr Stewart said the farm had attracted interest from all over the UK, Ireland and as far afield as Budapest.
“We didn’t put it to a closing date. It was very competitive,” he added.
“It shows that if farms that have been well farmed and well managed are properly priced and marketed, there’s still demand for them.”