Anyone wants to splash their lottery winnings? Meerkats, monkeys and marmosets: Property complete with 300 different animals goes on sale for £600k - Telegraph
It may be to someone or to others who are not familiar with the zoo or with anything relating to it, so yes it is relevant.
Yes, its been put up for sale off and on for the past few years, originally it was up for £850,000 so its going down, year on year !!
Yes, I think there are many people on here that would love to buy the place, but in reality, the site is a very poor one, it regularly floods, it has a very low visitor catchment area and would take a vast amount of spare money to plough into it to improve it further, but like I often say, location is EVERYTHING when you have a zoo, and if that ain`t right you might as well not bother.
Exactly. There have been plenty that have looked into it over the years, so there's a very good reason that it's never sold. Don't get me wrong, the owners and dedicated staff are lovely.....but you'd need a buttload of cash and the luck of every leprechaun in Ireland (or whatever the welsh equivalent is) to make a success of this one.
Absolutely, I agree, I know the owners and they are great people, they have worked hard there, but the current site is far from ideal as a zoo. I have to say that it was initially very over-priced at £850,000, and although it has come down a great deal since then, it is still pretty expensive.
I visited recently . The lions have settled very well and enjoy the views from their enclosure . They can be left overnight in the covered outside area but not in the larger open-topped area . As it was a non-feed day they were confined to the covered area as they will only come in when fed . As a keeper needs to be present when visitors are in the new area it is not always open . Apart from the lions there are a pair of emu with their chicks in this area ( as well as ponies , sheep and a calf ) . An aviary has no occupants . A second female lynx had recently been received as company for theirs . They did not know the new arrival was pregnant , she could be seen nursing at least cubs in her shelter , the enclosure is temporarily split in two . Two coati have been born . With the new EU rules on 'undesirable' species they might be some of the last 'legal' births . No sign of the sunbirds in the 'Tropical Aviary ' .
This actually really annoys me, because I gave them those coati babies (brother and sister) for nowt on the stipulation that they get the male neutered. It seems that they now have inbred babies!
What do you guys think this place should be priced at if you were to offer? most seem to be against it at 650k.
Unless you're getting a valuation from local estate agents/land valuers and local accountants/business valuers anything beyond, "it doesn't seem a viable business due to it's remote location" is a shot in the dark.
