The average moving home costs for selling and buying in Scotland are somewhere between £7,000 and £11,000, and with so much at stake, you want to make great choices.
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Every few weeks, another headline appears warning that house prices are about to crash.
The reason changes each time. One month it is mortgage rates. The next it is inflation. More recently, geopolitical tensions and uncertainty in the Middle East have been blamed for higher borrowing costs and weaker buyer confidence.
Yet despite all these predictions, the housing market continues to frustrate the pessimists.
(more…)Weekly round up on what’s driving the Fife Property market including a look at recent listings, sales and coming soon:
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(more…)Before you hand over the keys to your new tenant, you need to have a series of rental home certificates in place for the tenancy to begin on a legally compliant footing.
There are separate deadlines for the different documents, from the day your property hits the market to the day your tenant moves in.
Weekly round up on what’s driving the Fife Property market including a look at recent listings, sales and coming soon:
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(more…)Every new government promises change, but investors don’t make money from promises.
They make money by understanding what change actually means.
(more…)You don’t need record-breaking temperatures for viewings on hot days to get uncomfortably warm. In fact, any rooms that face the sun can absorb significant heat.
Walking around hot and stuffy rooms can be a stifling experience for summer buyers, so it’s a smart move to prepare your home when the mercury is set to rise.
(more…)Total transaction volumes and new build volumes available to calculate UK HPI estimates have increased recently. HM Land Registry has processed over 40% of HM Revenue & Customs’ provisional sales estimate for UK HPI’s first estimate in recent months, though transaction volumes for older periods and new build volumes remain lower than historical averages. Users should be aware that revisions may be larger than historically and should note the greater uncertainty around new build prices.
(more…)Weekly round up on what’s driving the Fife Property market including a look at recent listings, sales and coming soon:
Article, Podcast and TV Shows written and produced this week are:
(more…)As an agent in the Fife property market, we believe it is important to offer local homeowners a balanced and realistic view of both the Fife and national property markets. Far too often in the last few years, national newspaper and social media headlines have focused on doom and gloom, creating the impression that the housing market is on the verge of collapse. Yet when you look beyond the headlines and examine the actual data, a rather different picture emerges. We are going to compare Q2 2026 against Q2 2025 and Q2 2023. Why? Well, 2025 was deemed to be a good post-pandemic market and 2023 was a tough post-pandemic market.
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