Crofts and croft houses for sale in the Outer Hebrides
A croft is not like anything else on the property market: some of what is advertised here is a tenancy that gets assigned rather than sold outright, and there are rules about who may take one on at all. 112 are advertised for sale across the Outer Hebrides today — on the Isle of Lewis, the Isle of Harris, the Uists, Benbecula and Barra — each with its price history and its days on the market, the same as everywhere else on this site. Which of the two kinds a listing is, and who qualifies for it, is set out below.
What counts here: a listing whose property type is croft or croft tenancy, or whose address says croft in so many words — a croft tenancy, an owner-occupied croft, or a house sold with croft land. It is a word-match over what the agents published, not the Crofting Commission's register, so a croft advertised without the word will be missing and the agent's own page is always the authority.
Buying a croft
Two different things get called a croft for sale. A croft tenancy is a tenancy that is assigned rather than sold outright, and the assignation needs the Crofting Commission's approval before it is legally yours. An owner-occupied croft is bought outright but stays croft land, with the duties that go with it. Which of the two a listing is matters more than the price does.
Two rules disqualify a lot of buyers from a tenancy before price comes into it, and neither is usually in the advert. A tenancy can be assigned only to one natural person — never to a company, and never jointly. And the tenant is required to live on the croft or within 32km of it, so it is not a second home you visit. Both are the Crofting Commission's to apply, and neither applies to an owner-occupied croft in the same way.
The guide to buying a croft sets out how an assignation is decided, what decrofting means, the residency and cultivation duties that come with croft land, and the two separate registers to check a croft against.
The authority on what a particular croft is, and who holds it, is the Crofting Commission and the Crofting Register kept by Registers of Scotland — not this page and not the advert. We do not sell property, arrange viewings or take a commission from anybody; every listing links back to the agent advertising it.