Jura’s Ardfin Estate for sale
Argyll’s Isle of Jura can expect a series of monied visitors over the coming months, arriving to inspect the Ardfin sporting estate in the southwest and west of the island, now on the market.The estate...
View ArticleJura’s Ardfin Estate sold to Wizard of Oz
The 12,000 acre Ardfin Estate on the Isle of Jura – on the market following the death of its owner Tony Riley-Smith, has been sold to Greg Coffeyy, a 39 year–old Australian hedge fund manager whose...
View ArticleConcerns in Jura at Wizard of Oz’s closure of garden’s at Jura House
As we reported earlier, Greg Coffey, the new Australian owner of Jura’s Ardfin Estate, put on the market after the death of its former owner, Tony Riley-Smith, has closed to the public the famous...
View ArticleJura’s search for an island doctor to be on BBC lunchtime news
The determined islanders of Jura are campaigning hard to recruit a doctor for their island practice.Their greatest score to date is about to hit the television screens – on the Scottish section of the...
View ArticleWill Jura now see more of the Wizard of Oz?
It is reported today that the Australian hedge fund performer extraordinaire, Greg Coffey- known as The Wizard of Oz on account of trades that have seen him build a personal fortune estimated as not...
View ArticleSNH accused of costing Jura jobs
The financier known as the Wizard of Oz, Greg Coffey, is understood to have decided not to go ahead with his £20 million golf course on the Ardfin Estate he owns on the Isle of Jura, due to obstruction...
View ArticleSNH show they have been blamed unfairly over Ardfin golf course
Scottish Natural Heritage [SNH] has responded to the story of the potential golf course project on the Ardfin estate on the Isle of Jura being abandoned because of their objections.They say: ‘We met...
View ArticlePlanning application for Jura golf course to go to Council this month
Greg Coffey, the brilliant young Aussie financier who now owns the Ardfin estate on the Isle of Jura, may have seen his plans for a private but spectacular 18 hole golf course on the estate hit a bit...
View ArticleThe Wizard of Oz, the Ardfin Estate, golf, wealth, privacy and community
The Australian Greg Coffey, the financial sector comet who so galvanised the City of London that he was dubbed ‘The Wizard of Oz’, has submitted a new set of plans for a golf course he wants to build...
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