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£52m facility to fund new student development in Edinburgh

Published 4 months ago

Work on Edinburgh’s new purpose-built student accommodation development can begin in earnest after Vita Group appointed contractors and secured funding for the project.

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Gunnercooke’s Scottish real estate team exceeds £250m in 2024 deals

Published 4 months ago

Gunnercooke’s Scotland Real Estate team, led by Partners Simon Etchells and Rachel Dunn, has experienced a busy 2024 with over £250 million in capital deals value.

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Scottish agency IT outage causing property transaction delays

Published 4 months ago

The Law Society of Scotland has advised that upcoming property settlements may be delayed because of an IT outage with a key Scottish government agency service.

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Scottish surveying practices Shepherd and Whyte & Barrie join forces

Published 4 months ago

Surveying firms Shepherd Chartered Surveyors and Whyte & Barrie Chartered Surveyors have come together to form a new practice.

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Blackfinch branches out with first forestry investment in Argyll and Bute

Published 4 months ago

Blackfinch Group, a UK investment specialist, has acquired a 174-hectare commercial forest in Argyll and Bute.

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Knight Frank: Utilities and tech to power economic growth of Scotland’s largest cities to 2050

Published 4 months ago

Knight Frank predicts that the utilities and information & communications sectors will dominate economic growth in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow through 2050.

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RICS: Scottish home sales expected to increase in 2025

Published 4 months ago

Expectations for home sales in Scotland have reached their highest in over three years, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, with a net balance of 50% of respondents expecting the volume of transactions to increase in the three months ahead.

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SLR consolidates Edinburgh presence in new sustainable office

Published 4 months ago

Sustainability solutions firm SLR Consulting has moved into a new 175-person office at The Tun in Edinburgh following a number of business acquisitions.

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Value of forestry sales plummets by 75% to just £70m

Published 4 months ago

A new report by the Scottish Land Commission has revealed a significant slowdown in Scotland’s forestry transactions and low activity in large-scale land sales.

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Savills: Scotland leads UK prime housing market recovery

Published 4 months ago

Savills has released its latest forecast for the prime housing market, highlighting Scotland as the standout performer with the highest projected five-year growth of +21.0%.

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ARO expands Scottish presence with new Aberdeenshire office

Published 4 months ago

Surrey-based IT services and solutions firm ARO has agreed to lease office space at Kingshill Park in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, from Knight Property Group.

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Propertymark criticises Building Safety Levy cladding proposal

Published 5 months ago

The Scottish Government’s proposed Building Safety Levy is not the most appropriate way of funding actions to remediate unsafe cladding, according to landlord body Propertymark.

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Aberdein Considine expands commercial property business to Manchester

Published 5 months ago

Aberdein Considine has opened a commercial property practice in Manchester’s Spinningfields, marking its first step of Northwest expansion.

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HFD expands serviced office offering with purchase of Mercury House

Published 5 months ago

Commercial property company HFD is expanding its Ospa brand of serviced offices following the acquisition of Mercury House at Strathclyde Business Park.

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Colliers: Third quarter investment in Scottish hotels soars by 150%

Published 5 months ago

Scotland’s hotel sector is experiencing a surge in investment, with Q3 2024 figures having reached £110 million, a 150% increase on the five-year quarterly average of £44m, according to Colliers.

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