One in every of Ayrshire's main property chiefs reckons his residence city is on the verge of "sustained development and prosperity".
Bob Cherry took a nicely earned retirement this week following 30 years as an property agent and revered face of the trade.
And the person who spent a few years serving to to steer CKD Galbraith and its purchasers to success in Ayr believes a post-pandemic panorama could be one in every of big alternative.
He revealed: "Ayr and its surrounding areas are locations of pure magnificence and the property market, significantly on this a part of the world, has taken a nicely documented surge.
"With so many individuals shifting to a make money working from home life-style, coastal residing goes to change into an enormous space of development and prosperity.
"Individuals who as soon as seen Ayr as simply too far a commute to town are actually coming right here to arrange residence and start new lives.
"I actually do imagine it is an enormous likelihood for the city transferring ahead and there may be loads of motive to be optimistic."
Bob, 64, constructed the company division for Cluttons at Killoch Place in 1991, earlier than the merger with Finlayson Hughes which noticed the start of CKD Galbraith in 2003.
He specialist information of the agricultural property market noticed him change into a vastly revered determine on the Ayr department, which now employs 14.
As a agency, the impartial property consultancy manages every part from farm, forestry, land and property pursuits on over 3.5 million acres and has places of work stretching throughout Scotland and into the north of England.
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Bob added: "As a model, now we have at all times been revered for being pleasant, approachable and fewer company and that is one thing I've favored to delight myself on as nicely.
"I've spent the previous few years coaching up my successors, Alice Wilson and Jake Shaw-Tan, and know that now's the time to step apart and revel in my hobbies exterior of labor.
"I've completely loved my 30 years...the participating of the mind and the valuations and simply the day-to-day contact with purchasers.
"However the enterprise is in very secure arms and I am positive the workforce will go from energy to energy."
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