House Selling Guides

Practical guides to selling property in Scotland, written for homeowners who want clear answers before deciding how to sell.

Home Reports

Everything the Scottish Home Report covers, what it costs and when you do not need one.

What a Home Report covers, when you need one, and how selling directly removes the cost.

Cash buyer, estate agency or auction. Side by side comparisons so you can pick the right route.

Compare speed, fees, certainty and net proceeds side by side.

Auction fees, reserve prices and fall-through risk versus a direct cash offer.

What it means when a buyer withdraws in Scotland, when missives make it binding, and how to recover the sale quickly.

How cash offers are calculated, what is deducted and how to check a buyer is genuine.

Understand the trade-off between headline price and net proceeds.

What selling actually costs in Scotland and how long each stage really takes.

Average timescales for an open-market sale and how a cash sale compares.

Estate agent fees, legal costs, Home Reports and other selling costs explained.

How capital gains tax works when you sell a second home or rental in Scotland, what you can deduct, and the 60 day reporting deadline.

Properties needing extensive repairs, repossession, broken chains and sales that have stalled.

How to sell a tenanted property in Scotland, with or without vacant possession, and why tenants in situ narrows your buyer pool.

Whether to fix it or sell as is, how repair categories in the Home Report affect mortgage lending, and who buys unmortgageable property.

Divorce, inherited property, tenanted homes and selling up before a move abroad.

How confirmation works in Scotland, what executors can do before it is granted, and how to sell an inherited house without the estate bleeding money.