Wick dole office may have new job

THE former government buildings in Wick's Girnigoe Street sold at auction last Wednesday to a mystery buyer at Glasgow's Trades Hall.

SVA Property Auctions dealt with the sale and marked it as "sold post" on its auction results schedule for May 1.

If a property fails to meet its reserve it will be classified as unsold but may still be available for sale after the auction – which appears to have happened with the former dole office.

Comprising more than 27,000 square feet of space at a rateable value of £115,000, the building once contained social security services as well as a tax office. At one time, the building housed about 100 tax, social security and job centre employees.

It was also a temporary home for Highland Council when it decanted from Market Square in 2013 in preparation for moving to its present base at Caithness House.

Shaun Vigers, a director of SVA Property Auctions, which is selling the complex, believes there is great potential for redevelopment of the site.

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