I want to buy a castle?

I live in scotland. I'd agree with the person who said good luck!. Why on earth you would want to live here? better off with a french one. For what its worth though...

there are several ruined castles that are sold for less than £million but you'd need 10 times that to make them habitable, and they're not much bigger, room wise, than your average .5 bedroom detached.

Forget about building a new one, no one really knows how any more and you wouldn't get planning permission anyway.

And even the stonework alone for a proper castle would cost well over a million on top of the land value, the inside fittings and all the other bits. Unless you want a fake one, in which case why are you bothering?

Unless you have access to a hilton level fortune your best bet is to get a copy of burkes peerage and find out who inherits the big castles now and try and seduce them into marriage. Most of the ones of the order of Stirling size are now in public ownership and not lived in. some of the next level down are lived in still, but also open to the public.

There are some that are in public ownership where the 'warden' lives on site which would kinda be living in a castle! The national trust does actually have some castles that it lets as holiday homes, if you wanted to try it for a fortnight!

Well people do still make castles, i would say a castle from scratch, would cost from £500,000 and upwards...

but you could buy an old run down one and develop it... but then there would be restrictions and all that stuff and having to use certain materials to repair it driving the cost up more and more...

but really, all there is to it is buying a plot of land, then getting those stone mason people to make big castle-like blocks then have it assembled, the most expensive would be like making the inside of the shell livable in modern day what with the weather (in scotland) and all that and the wood interior.. and an architect would be lots...

i would say just get into property developing and build up you're money until you got around £500,000 to a million (it sounds like a lot in one big go but if you are buying and selling a lot of properties then it shouldnt take too long to get together if you keep your living costs down and not make too many crap buys) then take on youre very own grand design...

i want a grand hollywood style mansion.. :)

The important thing is , the best way to start making money is to spend money. So start buying up all the smaller properties (streetside stores) and small houses ( < 5 or 6000 gold) and then you'll start seeeing income. Also you can make good money by fighting at the crucible. Invest in Barnum's business plan and that will make you some money. Whatever it is, make sure you keep buying properties and rent it out. Don't jack up the rent, or increase the prices. If you do, people will consider you as evil and the town economy will go down the drain, and you'll get lesser and lesser money. After sometimes, you'lll start making 10000, 20,000 gold every 10-20 mins or so. After which buying fairfax castle is no big deal. You can buy one like that every few days. These days when I come back, after 12 hours, there's atleast 400,000 or 500,000 gold waiting for me. So remember the saying, "Money makes money". You save it under your bed, it won't do any good.

Omgsh! I want a castle in ireland or France! U know,just to own a castle is awesome! U could eithr live their or live their during the summer as a sort of vacation. I always wanted to live in one for a while with a horse to get around on a hill by the beach.=]

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Hey I like your crazy idea all the same.

Hope you find the castle, if you ever want lively persons to share your castle with you, give us a bell.

A good choice of location as well- Scotland. Hmmm you must have good taste!

Buying a castle can sometimes be very cheap. That is because the maintenance, taxes and upkeep are so high that literally no one can afford it. Kind of like, you can buy a DC-9 cheap, but keeping it flying is a different matter. Do you have maybe $100,000 a year for expenses?

Maybe you should live a couple of miles from my house. A guy took a simple little ranch, put up a bunch of turrets on it, and made a fancy entrance. The rest of the property looks terrible, no landscaping, junk decorating the yard, probably no garage - BUT he has his castle.

That's a cool goal, but I think you would need to go and search for abandonned places of that style and restore them. Oh yeah and you'll need a hell of a lot of money! But it's something to aim for I suppose :)

You could build a really really big one in the sand and live in it, but you'd have to keep renovating it daily :( lol

Good luck

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I suggest you make yourself a trebuchet.

More info on that here: http://www.ripcord.ws/plans/plans.html

Then recruit a small army and invade a castle in Scotland.

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ebay!

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in reality buying a castle would cost you a few million pounds for a small one, and something like 30mil+ pounds for bigger ones.

Building one would be cheaper.

But these are just rough estimates.

Cheers mate!

Here is a link to castles for sale in Scotland, you can search by county, hope it helps.