The Rettie Blog

We are pleased to have sold a wonderful array of properties across East Lothian this year.

We are delighted to announce that Sandy Gilmour MRICS has joined Rettie as an Associate Director in the Land & Development team. Sandy joins us from Graham & Sibbald, bringing over twenty years' experience in the Scottish market and most recently headed up Graham & Sibbald's National Investment + Development practice.

The consensus at this juncture in 2019 is that the supply of farmland for sale has been restricted. As is often the case, the farmland market surprises even the most self-confident and informed commentators.

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.