10-Year Property Market Report Published
A report providing a 10-year overview of the Scottish property market has been published by Registers of Scotland (RoS). With the last of Scotland’s 33 registration counties having switched from the deeds-based General Register of Sasines to the map-based Land Register in April 2013, RoS has now been able to review the market trends over […]
Are rental rungs replacing the ‘property ladder’?
A recent report from Halifax has revealed a change in attitudes towards renting. In 2011, the first Halifax Generation Rent Report described a generation who wanted to buy but couldn’t afford to or didn’t dare try for fear of rejection. Three years and 32,000 survey respondents later, the opinions of 20-45 year olds are changing, […]
Sharp increase in first-time buyer lending
First-time buyers are continuing to help drive the property market, with recent data showing that mortgage lending to first-time buyers totalled £3.7 billion during December 2013. This is a 3% increase over November 2013 and an increase of 48% over the comparable figure for December 2012. The data, which has recently been released by the […]
More homes coming onto the Scottish market
There has been a welcome increase in the number of homes coming onto the Scottish property market, according to the latest Residential Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). During December, a net balance of 44% more chartered surveyors reported an increase in new instructions, the highest in the UK. This rise […]
