Author: Robert Carroll

  • Should you move or improve when your home no longer meets your needs?

    It is inevitable that at some point in our busy, ever-changing lives we will find that our home no longer meets our needs. It could be that due to a growing family we need more bedrooms or that a change in jobs means that we need working space in the home. When we reach this…

  • Funding a New Playground for Corstorphine Primary School

    Recently we were approached by a parent at Corstorphine Primary School, a school very close to our Costorphine office. She wanted to know whether we would be willing to help out with a project to build a playground for the children of Costorphine Primary School? Would we? Yes. Yes we would. Very much.

  • MOV8 Property Market Update October 2014

    There are some months where I stare at a blank page and wonder what on earth to write about the past month in the Scottish property market. And then there are months like this where I don’t know how to filter it down! This month has seen the announcement of a monumental change in the…

  • How Do People Find Property in Scotland These Days

    The estate agent’s window, or For Sale Boards outside a property, used to be the first ports of call for people looking to buy a property, however the rapid growth of the Internet over the last 10 years has changed the way that people buy and sell residential property. As a result, more and more…

  • Is This a Good Offer on My Property and Should I Accept This Offer

    What Makes a Good Offer and How Should I Know Whether to Accept It or Not? Sellers often ask our Property Negotiators what they would consider to be a good offer for their property, and whether they should accept it. So, how do you answer this question?

  • Movember at MOV8 Real Estate

    It’s around this time of year that we start to notice strange things happening to the upper lips of gentlemen throughout the world. For some reason, November is the month where men choose to sport facial hair’s timeless classic…the moustache. Handlebar, circus, 70s film star, the more the merrier. But why? For Movember of course!

  • The Evolution of MOV8 Real Estate

    Seven years ago in September,  I went down to Leith and opened the doors on an office for the first time, said hello to a couple of new colleagues, hoped that everything I’d been setting-up through the night for several weeks would actually work, then we all picked up the phones and started spreading the…

  • Land and Buildings Transaction Tax to Replace Stamp Duty in Scotland in 2015

    The finer details have just been announced for the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax that is due to replace Stamp Duty in April 2015. So, what are the new levels of tax on property purchases? What effect will this have on the property market? And it this an improvement on the existing system of Stamp…

  • Property Market Update September 2014 – Scottish Independence Referendum Special

    For anyone who doesn’t have Facebook, Twitter, friends, a local newsagent, a town crier or the Internet, there is an outside chance that you will be unaware of the historic vote that took place in Scotland on 18 September. For anyone who has access to just one of the above sources of news, you will…

  • Why Selling Your Property in Winter is a Great Time to Sell

    It has been long-accepted wisdom that the property market in Scotland peaks in Spring and in the late summer period around August. As a result, this is when most sellers tend to put their property on the market. However, as surprising as it may sound, Winter is actually statistically the best time of year to sell.…