3/4 Bed Detached Bungalow For Sale, Leadhills, Scotland, Offers Over £180,000
July 29, 2010
Exceptional property in the picturesque village of Leadhills, Scotland. Situated 50 miles South-East of Glasgow and 24 milesSouth-West of Lanark, this property gives you the everything you could want, peace and tranquility plus wonderful scenery.
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Country House for sale in Scotland, offers over £198,000
July 19, 2010
Loft-style apartment property set in the midst of beautiful Scottish countryside. The best of both worlds, a unique property. 1 hour from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Carlisle. Extra’s include home cinema system, full size snooker table and Aga.
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Offers over £198,000.
Almost 1000sq ft of solid oak floor.
Contact Agents ‘Pollock McLean’ on 01848 330207.
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House for sale in Cairnhill Airdrie Scotland
July 9, 2010
http://airdriehouseforsale.blogspot.com This 6 apartment extended detached property with garage sits in an elevated position within a quiet estate in the much sought after Cairnhill area of Airdrie. The property offers a spacious, bright lounge, a separate dining room and a sitting room with patio doors leading onto the mature garden. Also on the ground floor is a fitted kitchen and a shower room with services for laundry facilities. Upstairs there are 3 spacious bedrooms each with built-in storage and there is a bright family bathroom
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10 Tips For Buying Or Selling Real Estate
July 3, 2010
Whether you are a buyer or seller, here are some helpful tips to enable you to make the best out of a real estate transaction.
(there is a free ebook: 101 Tips For Selling Your House,for you to download, from a link at the bottom of this page).
Buyers
Pick a developing area. You can scientifically predict which areas are boom towns or not by reading the business pages.
Learn the real estate market in the area you picked. You need to develop a thorough knowledge of what properties are available and the going rates for houses. Be ready to make an offer in the shortest time possible.
Make your offer to buy conditional on a thorough inspection of the property. If you discover some problems, try to negotiate for a lower price to offset the inherent property flaws.
Be patient and prepared to keep looking until you find the right house that will give you a good return on your investment.
Sellers
Make sure that you let natural light inside the home during a buyer’s inspection. Open curtains, draw the blinds and turn on all lights in all rooms of the house.
Repair and/or renovate door and window hinges, door handles, broken shutters, leaky faucets, broken bulbs etcetera. Make sure that there are no squeaking doors, windows close and open smoothly and faucets are leak-free!
Deodorize the house to neutralize pet or tobacco odors. Better yet, bake bread or chocolate chip cookies before a buyer makes a visit to your home!
Make sure the house is cleaned from top to bottom, inside and outside including all those hidden corners, under the sinks, bath tubs and baseboards. Mow the lawn and trim the hedges!
Get rid of all unnecessary clutter and personal souvenir! Buyers want to see the home as they would live in it and not as you live in it!
Give your home a fresh coat of paint inside and out. Painting your home is one of the most important and inexpensive investment you can make to maximize your sale price.
Real estate is slowly becoming a rewarding investment, more rewarding in fact than stocks and bonds because they have not been performing as in the past.
On the other hand, real estate investment is performing beyond expectations because of its appreciation and due to demographic factors.
Analysts have been claiming that the real estate boom will fizzle out but that was 4 years ago and the market continues to improve due to demographic factors, lower loan interest rates and easier mortgage requirements!
Gerald Mason
http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/10-tips-for-buying-or-selling-real-estate-103212.html
Using the Internet to Find your Vacation Cottage
July 3, 2010
“Why did you decide to come to us?” I asked.
“It was my eldest son, aged 11, who said he wanted to go to Scotland because he had heard about the Loch Ness Monster. So we said Ok” said Karin from Berlin.
Why people choose a particular holiday vacation is amazingly varied.
We know that people like to find owners’ sites direct if they can. But that means searching through to page 5 or 6 of most holiday pages on the internet. The big powerful holiday directories crowd out the first few pages.
Here are a few tips.
FAQ’s
Q Should I circularise my request to several properties at the same time and see what they say?
A. Many visitors do exactly this, but the text reveals to owners that they are using a circular enquiry. So many independent owners simply do not bother to reply. In a desirable location most owners can sell heir property many times over in the peak season.
Q. Should I find a property owner directly from the web or search through a directory?
A. There are 2 kinds of directory – an agency which takes the bookings and allows no direct contact with the owners and a directory which quotes e-mail and web addresses. The advantage with both kinds is that you’ll see many properties but agencies will stop you from contacting owners direct. They want a commission on the bookings, they’ll lose it if you contact the owner.
Q I can’t find owners sites when I search
A Go straight to page 3 or more of the search engine results to clear the Directory sites. You’ll find individual owners’ sites then.
Q. I want to find a property at the last minute, how should I search?
A. For Scotland look up the Cottage Guide and the Undiscovered Scotland web sites. These are both honourable bona fide directories with direct links to owners’ sites. The problem is that owners, like us I’m afraid, do not keep their availabilities up to date. Other directories cover other countries
We carry out research each year amongst our guests and others, Overwhelmingly they are experienced at internet booking of holiday properties or hotels, both here and overseas, and overwhelmingly they want to contact property owners direct through the web sites.
We know what our guests look for – it is a good location in the area they want, the right facilities and price, a warm welcome and a speedy helpful response.
They may search many different websites to start with, giving them a quick once over, and then going back to the ones they like for deeper investigation. All sorts of things can put them off a particular property but they often end up with a short list of two or three to choose between.
Our advice would be to try and narrow down your search as bit, to a smaller area of the country. In this way you can reach the individual owners’ websites more easily without going through masses of directories first. Using a term such as “Self catering Scotland” will be pretty hopeless, because it is too broad. You may need to go through the site descriptions on to page two or three to find your owners property. Don’t just pick the top sites of page one and then change to a different search term. The short site descriptions in, say, Google, are very useful.
But you can also find the directories useful for giving you plenty of options to start with, so long as they let you through to the owner’s site. If they don’t then they are an agency. But here, you are generally choosing on the basis of the photograph. It may not do the property or the location justice.
John Winkler http://holidaysscotland.blogspot.com
John Winkler
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