{"id":606790,"date":"2026-04-15T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606790\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:52:08","slug":"154-year-old-auction-mart-goes-under-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606790\/","title":{"rendered":"154-year-old auction mart goes under the hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 154-year-old auction mart building near a major south of Scotland regeneration project is going under the hammer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Albert Hall, which sits on Port Street in Annan, has a guide sale price of \u00a3150,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is located at the opposite end of the street to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyjv4lk3yzo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a multi-million pound harbour regeneration project in the town.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a multi-million pound harbour regeneration project in the town.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a multi-million pound harbour regeneration project in the town.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Annan Harbour Action Group said it would be happy to work with whoever the new owner of the property might be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The area was once busy with shipbuilding, commerce and fishing, but it declined in the second half of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Work on a \u00a315.6m redevelopment project is in the process of getting started and is expected to take about two years to complete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Port Street is home to a number of Georgian houses but the Albert Hall was built in 1872 by auctioneer James McLean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It has been empty for many years, although there were hopes it could be converted to housing, and planning permission was given to turn it into flats about 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Selling agent Shepherd said it understood redevelopment grants would be available to any buyer purchasing the category B-listed property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It will require significant investment in order to bring it back into use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 154-year-old auction mart building near a major south of Scotland regeneration project is going under the hammer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[229015,229016,49,48,229018,194697,229017,61],"class_list":["post-606790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-albert-hall","tag-annan-harbour-action-group","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-port-street","tag-redevelopment-project","tag-regeneration-project","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}