Tortoise sold with Edinburgh home: Long-term lodger is a unique shelling point

Torty has lived at the home in Edinburgh for at least 70 years
Torty has lived at the home in Edinburgh for at least 70 years
SQUAREFOOT MEDIA

Homebuyers with a million pounds to shell out could do worse than snap up this property that comes with its own tortoise.

Torty has lived in the garden of a house in Murrayfield, Edinburgh, for at least 70 years after he was brought over from Greece as a hatchling.

In 1991, when Ana and Alec Wersun moved in, they were “delighted” to find out they were to be the tortoise’s third set of custodians.

Thirty years later they are selling their terraced home for offers over £975,000 and have decided to let the “stubborn adventurer” enjoy his twilight years in peace.

“It is a walled garden so he cannot get out, but removing these animals can be traumatic for them,” said Mr Wersun, a senior