Bodies representing estate agents and lenders joined forces last night to call for urgent reform of the current Home Report system. Home reports were introduced five years ago replacing the traditional property survey as the property market began to go into decline. The cost of a Scottish Home Report is £480 and the report includes […]
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The Scottish Parliament has passed a Bill introducing the new Land and Building Transactions Tax which will replace stamp duty in April 2015. The new tax will be more closely related to the value of the property and is expected to be a vast improvement on the current stamp duty tax in place. So, what […]
Scotland’s biggest property website, s1homes, is celebrating a momentously successful May and start to 2013. In May, visits to s1homes increased by 49.7% when compared to May 2012. Unique visitor figures also increased, the year on year comparison reflected an increase of 35.4% for the month. The success experienced by s1homes during the month of […]
The Scottish Government has announced that their affordable homes scheme has launched a further procurement round following significant demand from local councils and developers. The scheme allows tenants the chance to rent below market rates for five to ten years before being given priority to buy the property at the end of the rental period. […]
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has just announced their monthly UK Residential Market Survey figures indicating a positive outlook for the property market in Scotland. For the third consecutive month RICS’s have recorded a growth in new buyer enquires and newly agreed sales for the first time since mid-2011. Sarah Speirs, Director RICS […]
Our latest quarterly house price report shows a widening of the Reality Gap (the difference between what house sellers hope to sell their properties for and the price they actually achieve) as the average price achieved continues to fall. On average properties in Scotland in the first quarter of the year sold for almost exactly […]
Aberdein Considine is to open an office in Edinburgh to provide even more choice to the Edinburgh property market. The Edinburgh office will be on Lothian Road in the city centre and will specialise in property and financial work. This will be the firm’s first site in the Scottish capital and add to central belt […]
If you’ve not been on our mobile site, mobile.s1homes.com, for a while, make sure you take a look. We’ve improved the site to be more like our desktop meaning it’s easier for you to search for exactly where you want to live. We’ve also made quite a few other changes to make searching for your […]
Our latest report shows home sellers at the higher end of the market continue to be unrealistic with their asking prices, as selling prices fall further. The Reality Gap (the difference between what house sellers hope to sell their properties for and the price they actually achieve) is still widening at the upper end with […]
As we enter 2013, we thought we’d take a look back at the most popular properties on s1homes in 2012. There’s a good mix from country estates to city living, with each one creating a great level of interest for many different reasons. 1. Monkton House and Cottage, Whitecraig, East Lothian You may have seen our […]