What is a croft?
Land which is registered croft land is available for anyone to purchase but under the restriction that an administrative body called the Crofters Commission regulate the occupation of crofts and may, if the land is not being properly utilised impose a tenant upon the owner. That tenant would have rights to buy the land (but not the house if you were occupying one on the croft) usually for a very small sum. The Crofting Acts were social engineering designed to ensure that there was land available for small scale agricultural enterprise and to ensure that rural areas remained populated. Buying land which is registered croft land, if it is not to be used for traditional activities such as keeping of cattle and sheep or growing crops could result in dispossession of the land. Anyone buying and carrying out the traditional type activities should not have a problem. If all you want to do is buy a house without anything beyond a garden and it is described as a croft there really is nothing to
