What are the upcoming changes to LBTT (stamp duty)? Subject to Royal Assent, on the 1st of April 2016 there is a 3% LBTT (stamp duty) surcharge payable on additional property purchases (such as buy-t...
Blog & News
Local Authority Purchase If you are a Local Authority or housing association tenant you may have the right to purchase your property. The rules for purchase and discounts available vary and much d...
Home Consultations Whilst many of our clients are happy to come to one of our offices for a consultation, we recognise that some clients prefer the comfort of their own home. Arranging A Home Consulta...
Pension changes could boost the Buy to Let market Pension reforms which take effect from April 2015 could trigger a surge in buy to let investments. Pension investors aged 55 and over will be able to ...
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has held the Base Rate at 0.5% which means the rate has been at this level for more than 5 years. The MPC vote to keep Base Rate at 0.5% was una...
The Scottish Governments Help to Buy scheme has closed its doors to new applicants looking for funding in the current financial year. In April the Government made available enough money to fund 2,000 ...
The property market is the busiest we have seen it for quite some time. Demand is high and we are seeing more properties coming to the market than we were experiencing even at the beginning of 2014. T...
Scottish First Time Buyers out in force According to the most recent report from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) there has been a massive increase in the number of mortgages advanced to first ti...
According to the most recent data hot off of the press from the Registers of Scotland (RoS) the volume of sales across Scotland for the period January to March 2014 was 17,828 which is an increase of ...
It’s become pretty clear since the start of 2014 that the property market in East Central Scotland has seen a steady recovery. Those who are selling property are enjoying greater demand which in tur...
The demand for property in all areas of Edinburgh and the Lothians continues to outstrip supply by quite some way. According to the latest figures released by ESPC during the three months to April the...
With house sales across Edinburgh, The Lothians and Fife in the three months to February up by over 90% annually it is not hard to see why Edinburgh is a contender behind only London in leading the ec...
