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?
Itโs 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 hairโs timeless classic…the moustache. Handlebar, circus, 70s film star, the more the merrier. But why? For Movember of course!
Seven years ago in September, ย 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…
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…
For anyone who doesnโt 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…
It has been long-accepted wisdomย 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.…
After the announcement of todayโs historic result in the Scottish Independence Referendum, with the country voting โNoโ to an independent Scotland, many Scots will now be asking what the effect of this โNoโ vote will be on the Scottish property market. In short, I predict that the ‘No’ vote will cause a positive ‘bounce’ in…
I was catching-up on property news headlines this morning and came across an article in The Telegraph stating that the upcoming referendum vote was having a negative impact on the Scottish property market. Not only that, it was apparently causing a change in solicitorย practice with regards to how they submit offers, with offers now being…
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