Step 1 · The site
What it is and what it allows.
What we do, in detail
Development, buying and selling, letting, and what we are not.
Program 01 · Warrant comes first
Development
In Scotland a building warrant has to be in place before work starts, not approved as you go, and a completion certificate has to be submitted and accepted before anyone occupies the finished building. That is a different procedure from the English one and it changes the programme, because the consent sits at the front. We do not start warrantable work without a warrant. A date that depends on a consent nobody has yet is not a date, it is a hope.
Step 2 · Consents
Planning, then building warrant.
Step 3 · Build
To the warranted drawings.
Step 4 · Certificate
Submitted and accepted.
Step 1 · The report
Home Report available up front.
Step 2 · The offer
Through your solicitor.
Step 3 · Missives
Concluded, and binding.
Step 4 · Settlement
On the agreed date.
Program 02 · Missives bind
Buying and selling
Two Scottish differences to know. A Home Report, covering a survey, an energy report and a property questionnaire, has to be available before most homes are marketed, so you see the survey before you offer rather than after. And missives bind both sides once concluded, which is earlier than people moving from England expect, and is the reason gazumping is rare here. Get a Scottish solicitor involved before an offer goes in, not after.
Program 03 · No end date
Letting
A private residential tenancy here has no fixed term and no expiry date. There is no no-fault notice in Scotland, so recovering a property needs a statutory ground and a tribunal order, which is a genuinely different bargain from an English tenancy and worth understanding from both sides. Deposits go into an approved Scottish scheme within the statutory period, counted in working days. Property is kept to the repairing standard.
Step 1 · Registration
Landlord registration in place.
Step 2 · The tenancy
Open ended, explained properly.
Step 3 · Deposit
Approved scheme, working days.
Step 4 · Standard
Repairs kept to standard.
Step 1 · The history
What we have actually done.
Step 2 · The role
Principal, never agent.
Step 3 · The cover
Named, or stated as absent.
Step 4 · The numbers
Facts, never forecasts.
Program 04 · New, and saying so
What we are not
This company was formed in July 2024 and we do not claim a history we do not have. We sell and let as principal, so we are not an estate agent or a letting agent, we hold no client money and we claim no agent redress scheme. We do not forecast value, rent, yield or resale, because nobody can and those who do are selling something. Where a structural warranty exists on a property we will name the provider, and where none exists we will say so.
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