Property

Rettie's land and development team has advised on over £750 million worth of residential property projects during 2024, equating to over 2,200 residential units during the year. Development partners and clients included Thriving Investments, Forth Ports, CCG, S1 Developments, and Moda.

The property market in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, and the Borders remained buoyant during the last quarter of 2024, defying the typical seasonal slowdown.

Marcus Di Rollo outlines six key themes that will shape Scotland’s property market in the coming year from the continued supply-demand imbalance and recalibrating rents to the evolving debate over short-term lets and eviction processes.  So far, the 2020s have seen a lot of change in Scot

Lindsays is on course to break the £200 million barrier for total home sales in 2025. Market experts at the firm say a more stable market during the past 12 months has been to the benefit of buyers and sellers following years of extreme highs and lows in both prices and trading conditions.

The Tayside property market is set for a strong year, according to local experts, after the Tayside Solicitors Property Centre reported an "exceptionally positive" end to 2024. During the last quarter of 2024, the average selling price across Dundee, Angus, and North Fife increased by 10.6% to

The Edinburgh housing market remains a law unto itself and demand for good family homes keeps prices bubbling, writes Kirsten Nicolson, who discusses recent residential property trends in the capital. As the old year slips away, home buyers and sellers – as well as property professionals &ndas

The latest HPI for Scotland show the average price of a property in Scotland in October 2024 was £197,000, an increase of 5.5% when compared to October 2023. Compared to the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 0.2% on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, whilst on a seasonally ad

Short-term lets (STLs) contribute positively to Scotland's economy, generating almost £1 billion in gross value added (GVA) and supporting nearly 30,000 jobs, according to BiGGAR Economics. BiGGAR's analysis claims the economic impact of Scotland’s self-catering industry has a negligible

Expectations for home sales in Scotland have reached their highest in over three years, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, with a net balance of 50% of respondents expecting the volume of transactions to increase in the three months ah

Savills has released its latest forecast for the prime housing market, highlighting Scotland as the standout performer with the highest projected five-year growth of +21.0%. The prime housing market typically represents the top 5% to 10% of the market in any region.

The average selling price of property across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders saw a 5.3% boost during September-November 2024, compared to the same time last year, taking the new average price to £286,263, ESPC has revealed. All regions (with the exception of East Fife) experience

The Scottish Budget needs to detail immediate actions to address the housing emergency, according to DJ Alexander Ltd. The property firm said that the Scottish Government needs to provide stimulus for the private building sector, provide clarity and stimulus to the private rented sector (PRS), put i

The ESPC has called for the full efforts of the Scottish Government to be put into increasing the supply of homes in Scotland. ESPC’s chief executive Paul Hilton believes that the Housing Bill, which has just passed Stage 1 at Holyrood, will have little impact on supply and that the "largest h

One year after the City of Edinburgh Council began implementing Scotland’s short-term let rules, Airbnb says its new analysis shows the licensing scheme has failed to have any impact on the affordable housing crisis in Edinburgh.

The average house price in Scotland reached £198,000 in September 2024, a 5.7% increase compared to September 2023, according to provisional figures from Registers of Scotland. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland decreased by 0.9% on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, whi