North Wales Properties - North Wales Cottages

Unique selling point
THIS HOUSE IN YARROWFORD IN Selkirkshire needs a fair amount of work, mainly because the former schoolhouse and school building have been used as two separate cottages up until now.

�1m bar renovation shows sector divided
A FORMER Bank of Scotland building in Kilmarnock has undergone a �1 million renovation and restoration and will open soon as a bar.

It's a gift
HOUSEBUILDERS often talk about houses being in "move-in" condition but that doesn't usually mean a fully decorated tree.

Tower of power
There are many viable reasons to consider renting rather than buying a property these days, particularly as property prices continue to rise to the point at which it can simply be less expensive to rent the kind of house or flat you'd want to live in.

London high-fliers target rural retreats after record bonuses
IT HAS absorbed the Dutch, the Arabs, the Danes, the Scandinavians, the Americans and more recently the Russians. Now rural Scotland is bracing itself for the invasion of a new breed of lairds.

Is it a blank canvas or simply unfinished?
ONE OF THE attractions of building our own house was, for me, the fact that I wouldn't have to correct someone else's awful taste in decor.