The property consultancy in charge of selling Broughty Ferry’s former Eastern Primary School has said there has been “a lot of interest” so far.
Global firm Knight Frank was brought in last year to help Dundee City Council market the category A listed building.
The old school has lain empty since pupils moved to the old Grove Academy site on Claypotts Road in 2011 and Knight Frank issued its first brochures for the site in August.
Partner at the firm Nadir Khan-Juhoor said: “There’s been quite a bit of interest expressed in the property since marketing started.
“It’s trying to get the best deal for the client, going through the motions and trying to find someone.”
Mr Khan-Juhoor said it was not unusual to have a building on the market so long.
“We finished the brochure last July. In relative terms of the market that’s not that long.
“In August it came on the wider market and definitely in Dundee there are buildings that have sat empty for ages.”
The former school is pitched as a development opportunity which couldbe used for a number of uses, subject to planning permission, including conversion into luxury flats.
Mr Khan-Juhoor said: “We’re separating what might be a very tentative interest and serious interest. Just now, like a lot of these things, it’s a very difficult market.
“There’s a lot of risks associated with development. In a good market this property would have sold so we’re relying on someone with cash or backing support.
“We are inviting offers for the building and the site, it’s about who comes forward and deliverability, if they’ve got the track record and if they’ve got the funding in place. I think flats would probably be the most likely use because of the nature of the building and its location but we’re not ruling anything out.”
The former school was developed in 1911 for the Dundee School Board and forms a substantial stone and steel beam schoolhouse under a pitched and slated roof.