The Rettie Blog

Throughout December, the Rettie teams have once again been taking part in our 31 Days of Rettie Christmas campaign, a chance to look back on the year, share festive tips and traditions and do our bit for charity. Here’s some of our highlights from the month!

As 2022 comes to an end, we look back at some of our favourite properties of the year, based on your Instagram likes!

Throughout 2022, Rettie have been supporting a number of charities throughout different areas of the business and this is an important area of our work.

Watch this week's Mortgage Update from Rettie Financial Services' Managing Director, Bob Duncan

At Rettie, our friendly and knowledgeable team of Property Experts and Mortgage & Protection Advisors are here to help you navigate today's property market. Informed by up-to-date market knowledge and research from our highly regarded in-house Property Research team, they're ideally placed to help you plan your next steps.

A green mortgage rewards you for buying or owning an energy efficient home. The same rules will apply if you make improvements or renovations to your home with the goal of making it more energy efficient. With green mortgages, lenders or banks will offer preferential terms to a house buyer if they can prove that the property they're looking at meets certain environmental standards. Homeowners will either get cheaper interest rates on their properties with high energy efficiency ratings, or they'll be offered cash back incentives to buy energy efficient properties. Some standard mortgages can also become green mortgages, but only if the homeowner commits to making energy efficient improvements. While some green mortgages can be more expensive, the main point of them is to incentivise homeowners to be greener.

On Wednesday 16th November 2022, Rettie hosted a Live Webinar via Microsoft Teams, regarding the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill Update.

Webinar Coming Soon (November 2022) Recently the Scottish Government had issued a rent freeze and no winter evictions effective from 6 September 2022. We now have more details to furnish you with, and have laid this out below with what we feel are the questions you will be seeking answers to.

Jamie Gillespie joins Rettie as Associate Director, as part of growth strategy plan in Glasgow.

We are all seeing the headlines about mortgage products being withdrawn or changed. In these changing times, expertise from Mortgage & Protection specialists, such as Rettie Financial Services, has never been more important. Although it is a turbulent time, you don’t need to be in it alone. Talking to Rettie Financial Services can really help.

The current financial situation has dominated the headlines this week, with stamp duty cuts at the centre of the discussion.

Rettie are proud to bring 42 Heriot Row, current headquarters of the Scottish Women’s Institutes, to the market. The property is a substantial and beautiful category ‘A’ listed townhouse in the sought-after New Town in Edinburgh. Despite being currently used as an office over three storeys, the property has the potential to be converted back into residential use.