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 […]