‘Stability is your friend’ A stormy winter period in Tayside has seen many of us hunker down and catch our breaths following another busy year in 2023, and 2022, and 2021… and 2020. Trying to describe the housing market post-lockdown is an almost impossible task, with most estate agents and surveyors in the area simply…
Our residential team recently had a great morning with Elmhurst Energy’s Alistair Galloway who informed us on some very important forthcoming changes to Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). These changes will be launched in Spring 2024 with the aims of improving the accuracy and comprehensiveness of EPCs on existing residential dwellings. This will mean our surveyors…
A recent article has seen the ancient Scottish capital Dunfermline voted the top city in the UK in terms of value for money and high standard of living due to its affordability, well-paid jobs, comparatively low house prices and a favourable ration of property costs to household income. Dunfermline has a resident population of circa…
Following the trend of Scotland as whole, Dundee and Angus have seen a significant increase in demand at all levels of the residential property sector since lockdown restrictions eased. Demand has continued to outstrip supply and the resulting impact is that there is a noticeable lack of stock entering the market, with quarterly sales records…
Currently, it’s impossible to avoid inflationary pressures. My mind is rather focused on shoving more loft insulation into my roof space to mitigate rising heating bills, and I’m pretty sure the caramel shortbread slice I buy most days from my favourite sandwich shop is getting smaller. This squeeze in people’s incomes is often accompanied by…
The arrival of the latest set of market statistics for Scotland from the Registers of Scotland (RoS) for Q2 2021-2022 show continued growth, but are we out of the woods quite yet? There were concerns last year that the pandemic would have a huge impact on house values causing negative equity. Some anticipated a reduction…
The arrival of the latest set of market statistics for Perth and Kinross from the Registers of Scotland (RoS) brings into sharp focus just how much has changed in a very short period of time. The stats cover the quarter up until the end of March, in other words the period prior to the main…
As one of Scotland’s largest independent firms of Chartered Surveyors we welcome the proposal from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) that Government intervention will be required to stimulate the property market post Covid-19 lockdown. The RICS March 2020 – UK Residential Market Survey showed a reversal to the first two months of the…
