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    The Edinburgh Property Guide

    by  • September 19, 2011 • 0 Comments

    EDINBURGH Property News is the blog for The Edinburgh Property Guide (www.theedinburghpropertyguide.com), the property portal and magazine for sales and rentals throughout Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Borders. The Guide offers buyers and sellers an unique combination—a property portal website and a quality monthly colour magazine. Both are available to estate agents, solicitors, developers and letting agents [...]

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    Luck is in for Scottish first-time buyers

    by  • January 22, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Tim Dawson, Sunday Times Scotland STATIC house prices have now made Scotland the most affordable place in Britain to buy a home. According to Registers of Scotland latest figures, average prices at the end of December 2011 were exactly the same as they were at the end of 2010—and research by the Bank of [...]

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    CALA borrowing deal adds to surge in sales

    by  • January 12, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Dominic Jeff The Scotsman, Thursday 12 January SCOTTISH housebuilder CALA group said yesterday it had extended its debt facility with Lloyds, while sales of its homes continue to recover. The Edinburgh firm said the new £180 million facility was secured on broadly the same terms as its previous agreement with the bank, adding that [...]

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    House prices edge up by 4% in west

    by  • January 12, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Jane Bradley, Consumer Affairs Correspondent Property Watch, The Scotsman, Thursday 12 January 2012 HOUSE prices in the west of Scotland have risen for the first time in almost two years. The cost of an average home in the west has risen by £4,000 compared with a year ago, according to a report by the [...]

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    Scottish surge helps to drive Barratt’s sales

    by  • January 12, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Dominic Jeff, ScotsmanBusiness.com The Scotsman Friday 13 January 2012 HOUSEBUILDER Barratt yesterday revealed a rise in revenues and a burgeoning order book, helped by a 25 per cent increase in Scottish sales. Revenues hit £950 million in the six months to 31 December, an increase of 8 per cent on the same period a [...]

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    More homeowners creating space for open-plan living

    by  • January 9, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Tim Cornwell The Scotsman, Friday 6 January 2011 HOMEOWNERS are shunning traditional house layouts in favour of open plan living, pouring money into creating “social areas” and ditching designated dining rooms, hallways and kitchens, according to research. Once the preserve of the urban trendsetter, open-plan living is now being replicated nationwide as householders shun [...]

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    Affordable home that pays its own bills

    by  • January 9, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Mark Melville CompropScotland 9 January 2012 SPRINGFIELD Properties, in partnership with David Blaikie Architect and Kraft Architects, believe they could build a home for the future that could pay for its own energy consumption. The three firms, who form part of the Future Affordable collaboration, were specially selected to take part in the Fife [...]

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    Tulloch returns to capital after ten-year break

    by  • January 3, 2012 • 0 Comments

    The Scotsman, Tuesday 3 January 2012 TULLOCH Homes is returning to the Edinburgh market after a  decade-long break, with an initial  £4 million development. The Inverness-headquartered housebuilder will begin work in early spring on 16 apartments at Drumbrae, in the Corstorphine area. New chief executive George Fraser said: “The time is now right to  re-enter [...]

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    Edinburgh street tops list of most expensive addresses

    by  • December 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

    BBC News – Scotland Business 29 December 2011 DICK Place in the Grange area of Edinburgh is Scotland’s most expensive residential street, according to data released by Bank of Scotland. The average price of a property was estimated at just over £1.5m. The next most expensive streets were in the west of Aberdeen—Rubislaw Den South [...]

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    Bonus time while Scottish estates sell well

    by  • December 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

    The Scotsman [3rd leader] Thursday 29 December 2011 HOUSE prices overall may be struggling and mortgages hard to come by, but there is one corner of the Scottish property market where conditions are defying the gloom. The country estate sector has continued to resist the global economic downturn. Sales are up on last year and [...]

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