The Rettie Blog

Rettie has become the first company in Scotland to put its dedicated BTR team through the Institute of Property Management’s (IRPM) Build to Rent (BTR) qualification.

Morningside often gets pigeon holed into the clipped, upper-crust accent epitomized in popular culture in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and numerous Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith novels.

Two new developments in Scotland have been acquired by the Mid-Market Rent Fund via Places for People’s fund management arm, PfP Capital. These are the first purchases made by the fund since launching. PfP Capital’s MMR fund has been looking for sites across Scotland to deliver 1,000 affordable homes.

Long-time Edinburgh residents Paul and Kathryn Jackson had been living in a large three bedroom Victorian home and found they were not using much of its space. They decided they were ready for a change and started looking in the area.

Prices from £475,000 … Get the most out of life in the city while enjoying a rural lifestyle in these idyllic locations just outside of Edinburgh. Moving to the country usually involves some degree of compromise, but the proximity of these properties to the Edinburgh city centre makes it effortless to combine country living with a city lifestyle.

Best Supporting Organisation of the Year 2018 … We are delighted to have won an award for the Best Supporting Organisation for the year 2018. It has been awarded by Homes for Scotland, an organisation that recognises and rewards the best in class in housebuilding across Scotland. The award recognises:

Darnick Tower is almost six hundred years old, with walls three feet thick. A king has stood on its battlements and ghosts are said to flit through the grounds. It was built for the Heiton family in 1425 and has never been for sale until now.

Well done again John Curtice. Yet again, we could all have gone to bed at 10pm when the nation’s favourite psephologist correctly called the result before any of the 35 million or so votes were even counted. You did half expect a noose to emerge from the gantry he stood on as the night wore on, but he was steadfast in his prediction and, eerily, prescient.

35 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh … Offers over £1,750,000 … A fine double fronted Victorian house on one of the capital's most cherished streets. The property, with 6,000 sq ft of living space, has five reception rooms, seven bedrooms and three bathrooms.

Development Services Team – innovative solutions for the Scottish residential market. Rettie’s Development Services Team had a busy 2014 and have been proudly shortlisted as Finalists in the ‘Best Partnership in Affordable Housing Delivery’ category at the Homes for Scotland Awards being held on Friday 15th May.

A ceremony this morning attended by the Scottish Housing Minister Margaret Burgess, marked the completion of the largest National Housing Trust project yet undertaken in Scotland. 145 apartments at Sailmaker Place, Edinburgh, all with underground parking and let at affordable rents, were officially completed today.

Rettie, one of Scotland’s largest independent Estate Agencies announced that Nick Watson and Max Mills are to be promoted to Directors from 1 May 2014. Both Max and Nick joined the firm as Graduates and have now been working for nine and fifteen years respectively supporting the Company’s tradition of developing talent from within.