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Best-laid plots
AT ORCHID Grove, Bellway Homes' development in Carnbroe, near Coatbridge, potential buyers have the opportunity to round off 2006 with an excellent package being offered on two of the company's most sought-after properties.

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.

Bauble-icious
For too many of us, getting the house spruced up for the festive period involves dusting off a battered box of decorations bought when Slade had the Christmas number one.

Big house in the little wood Inside knowledge
When Dr James Frost first viewed Easter Caerlee there were two main things that appealed to him about the house: the views, and the solidity of the building.

Light touch Inside knowledge
Garden level flats can feel a tad dreary when viewing them in the dead of winter, where the lack of natural light only accentuates the drawbacks of a location below street level, yet this preconception is neatly flipped on its head when visiting this...

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Country ideal
Living in a rural location is a dream for many and the multitude of former farm buildings dotted about the countryside make it a possibility.

Edge of greatness
If Drummond Place is about city centre living, with Harvey Nicks practically your local corner shop, Westwick at 66 Spylaw Bank Road in Colinton moves the action to the western fringes of Edinburgh.

Best-laid plots
AT ORCHID Grove, Bellway Homes' development in Carnbroe, near Coatbridge, potential buyers have the opportunity to round off 2006 with an excellent package being offered on two of the company's most sought-after properties.

Big house in the little wood Inside knowledge
When Dr James Frost first viewed Easter Caerlee there were two main things that appealed to him about the house: the views, and the solidity of the building.

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.

A feather in their cap
HOUSEBUILDERS are waking up to the fact that what they build has an impact on the environment and little things such as making sure a house has sufficient space in the eaves for birds to nest can make a huge difference to the survival of our indigenous...

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.

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Latin locations
SUNNY, scenic and oozing with glamour, countries like Argentina and Brazil are currently enjoying an unprecedented property boom.

Mixed picture for construction trade points to hazy outlook
SCOTLAND'S construction industry has enjoyed mixed trading fortunes over the latest quarter, according to two key building industry reports.

BAE sells Crewe Toll buildings for �94m
TWO major Edinburgh buildings at Crewe Toll have been sold by BAE Systems Pension Funds Trustees to a syndicate of private investors for �94 million, a net initial yield of 5.04 per cent.

Log home Scotland
IF YOU'VE ever found yourself dreaming of an Estonian log cabin...well, OK, that's not that likely but if the Scottish branch of an Estonian wooden house company has its way.

Big house in the little wood Inside knowledge
When Dr James Frost first viewed Easter Caerlee there were two main things that appealed to him about the house: the views, and the solidity of the building.

North Wales Property for sale - North Wales Cottages

A feather in their cap
HOUSEBUILDERS are waking up to the fact that what they build has an impact on the environment and little things such as making sure a house has sufficient space in the eaves for birds to nest can make a huge difference to the survival of our indigenous...

House-price bubble 'may burst in a year'
BRITAIN'S property bubble will burst in one or two years, a prominent economist and former adviser to Gordon Brown warned yesterday.

Country ideal
Living in a rural location is a dream for many and the multitude of former farm buildings dotted about the countryside make it a possibility.

Rugby star celebrating triumphant conversion to property
MOST aspiring young rugby players spend their childhoods dreaming of donning the captain's armband for their country and leading their nation to victory.

Mixed picture for construction trade points to hazy outlook
SCOTLAND'S construction industry has enjoyed mixed trading fortunes over the latest quarter, according to two key building industry reports.

Climate warning for property investors
IGNORE climate change at your peril - you could find yourself investing in valuation time bombs that come back to haunt you.

This week's hot topic - our erratic plumbing
I KNEW THAT project managing a build ourselves would most likely deprive us of the Ribbon Cutting moment when, however metaphorically, the house is declared complete.

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Best-laid plots
AT ORCHID Grove, Bellway Homes' development in Carnbroe, near Coatbridge, potential buyers have the opportunity to round off 2006 with an excellent package being offered on two of the company's most sought-after properties.

Adverts for two-thirds of new flats 'misleading city buyers'
TWO-THIRDS of new flats in the Capital are misleadingly advertised by developers and agents, a Trading Standards survey has found.

BAE sells Crewe Toll buildings for �94m
TWO major Edinburgh buildings at Crewe Toll have been sold by BAE Systems Pension Funds Trustees to a syndicate of private investors for �94 million, a net initial yield of 5.04 per cent.

Log home Scotland
IF YOU'VE ever found yourself dreaming of an Estonian log cabin...well, OK, that's not that likely but if the Scottish branch of an Estonian wooden house company has its way.

Guests welcome
Liz and Francis Gradidge weren't seriously considering moving to Scotland seven years ago when they first viewed Ruthven House, which is located just outside Coldstream in the Borders.

Value of city solicitors' house sales smashes �3bn barrier
THE value of homes sold this year by Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre has passed �3 billion for the first time in its 35-year history.