Area guide · PA38
Selling Your Home in Appin
A spread-out Highland community with some of the best views in Scotland
Appin is less a single village and more a stretched-out Highland community covering perhaps twelve miles of coast along Loch Linnhe and Loch Creran. It's a place of small clachans, scattered crofts, and individual houses tucked into the landscape. The views across the lochs to Morvern, Lismore and the Glencoe hills are arguably as good as anywhere in Scotland. Castle Stalker, the picture-postcard tower house on its tidal islet, sits in Appin and is one of the most photographed castles in Britain.
What Appin is like
Appin is genuinely rural. The A828 is the main artery; settlements like Port Appin, Tynribbie, Duror and Portnacroish branch off it. Port Appin has a small ferry to Lismore, a hotel-restaurant and a few cottages; the rest of the area is properties scattered along side roads, often with substantial land or sea frontage. There's a primary school, a couple of village halls, and a strong sense of long-standing community, but day-to-day services mostly mean a drive to Oban or up to Fort William.
Property in Appin
Appin's market is unusual: relatively few transactions, but high-value ones when they happen. The classic Appin property is a stone-built farmhouse, croft or country house with views and land; new-build is rare. Buyers tend to come from further afield (central Scotland, England, sometimes overseas) drawn by the landscape rather than by jobs or schooling. The Argyll & Bute region recorded the highest house-price increase of any Scottish local authority in 2025, and Appin's view-heavy stock is part of that story.
Why people choose Appin
Appin is for people who want the scenery without compromise. The trade-off is genuine remoteness (Oban is 20 miles, the nearest large supermarket too) and a smaller pool of buyers when you eventually come to sell. But for those who value the landscape, the privacy and the slow pace, there are very few places in Britain that compete.