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sometimes it can be very difficult to
shop for certain people but what if you
could give someone the gift of land not
just any land a plot in the Scottish
Highlands that's what you're looking at
on your screen right now well it makes
this even better is that this unique
gift allows participants to become a
Laird Lord or lady and we just so happen
to have one of the representatives from
Highland titles Lord Steven Rossiter
with us today on news 6 at 9:00 good
morning good morning and thank you for
being with us and if I were to be
correct when we started I thought you
were from here but you have traveled all
the way here away from still be with us
I know I mean this is a fantastic outfit
- thank you very much I mean seriously
this is the Highland titles Tarleton
although we are commonly talk well we're
glad to have you here thank you very
much yeah and so tell us about this
whole this whole process I love this
because it's a gift that someone can't
return exactly give me a lot of that
gift giver this could be good this could
be good if you know if you're struggling
for the person who has everything this
is great
so Highland titles as you rightly say is
a nature reserve it's a conservation
company the way that we get our funds is
by selling the land a square foot at a
time
so you buy for just under $45 a one
square foot plot on our Nature Reserve
and you get the title as you rightly say
of LED now LED means landowner is
everyone in Scotland who has land is
called a Laird only those with massive
estates huge vast estates tend to use it
but actually anyone can use it really so
just because you own one square foot
square foot plot you can still say I'm a
Laird that then translates down to Lord
the female equivalent being lady and so
as a bit of a courtesy title when you
buy these you make you LED Lord or lady
of Glencoe cool I mean I just can't even
believe it I had no idea and this is
what's so fun about the giving season as
you start to explore and find out
different things that you could
potentially give to someone tell us
about the people who have come to see
their fun well we have we have eight
thousand visitors a year come to the
mate reserve from all over the world
from all over the States of American
Australia from Europe and they're coming
specifically to find their plot and
we've developed an app you can once
you've got your plot download our app
and that will tell you where the plot is
from wherever you are in the world and
then of course the closer you get to it
you get a little compass and it tells
you to go left to go right and then
eventually you're standing on it now if
you can also view your plot from Google
Maps you put in the the grid reference
which we give you and you can zoom
straight into it so that's what we've
done today for both of you so Lord from
now on you can be known as a Lord
adjusting well we're gonna have to get
that switch on the on the Chiron at the
bottom on the sewers and Lady Kirsten
from now thank you so much how many
people have purchased a piece of land
there where we've been going for 10
years now we're not far short of 100,000
I believe so is we have a huge following
every May we have a gathering of around
a hundred we can only cater for a
hundred people at the time but we a
hundred people come again from all over
the world to a hotel we have a three-day
event where we do talks and have a nice
meal together and that we go to the land
and everybody sees that plot and we give
updates where we're going we have a
Facebook page which will tell you
everything that's going on all the way
on the honor the reserve all the time
live camera shots you can also go to
Highland titles com lots of information
about the reserve there about the
projects that we're doing what the money
goes towards and of course that's where
you can buy your plot from Highland
titles calm and quickly give us a price
so it's just under $45 I think it's 43
it's linked to the pound so just there
so it's just it's 43 dollars at the
moment for a one square foot plot and
but if you put in the discount box happy
holidays just for watching News six at
night just for watching you six or nine
oh one more thing
if someone buys a piece of land yeah
what can they then do to that piece of
land well effectively not a lot really
yeah we don't want you to build it is
what it is all about on it is all about
conservation right yeah but what people
tend to do they come they come what what
we want people to do is come and visit
it obviously but not everybody can visit
Scotland so it's like having your own
piece of Scotland with them to go there
I mean a lot of Americans have got a lot
of Scottish ancestry and Ellie and so
this is part you know if you think you
know someone who's got that this is a
great gift to give them
find out what their heritage is in do
you happen to find out that you have a
little bit of Scottish why not give get
a little bit of land absolutely so but
we take care people a lot of people ask
me other taxes or to pay how what about
the maintenance and we take care of all
of that that's the whole point we have a
lot of volunteers on the land who will
do everything that needs to be done to
keep the land going and the thing about
it is well we're getting a lot of the
animals that used to be habitat they're
coming back yeah and we've seen red
squirrels we we've got an osprey now
nesting near a one acre lock on which we
dug out two years ago again all part of
creating this nature reserve school and
school children they'll come and do
their nature projects on rank so we're
putting a lot back into the local
community there but it's involving
people from all over the world love it
that's awesome thank you for letting me
come here and share it with you thank
you absolutely this is the first step in
taking over house lannister housewarming
anytime now so thank you so much for
joining it well again we'll have much
more information on clique Orlando thank
you very much well thank you