Liz says: I was at work on a regular Tuesday, mid-August, and my mobile phone rang. I saw the dialling code and immediately the hairs on...

Liz says: I moved to Leamington to live with John about 18 months after we met. Having survived a long distance relationship in the late...

We've mentioned before that the process of buying and selling a house in Scotland is slightly different to England. For most houses the...

We are now many months into our house search and several of he houses we looked at have now been registered with Land Registry, meaning...

So we find ourselves in a slight quandary. We want to sell our existing house around this time next year (November 2023) to release the...

Well look at that, a beautiful cottage, set back from the road with uninterrupted views over the loch and land down to the water's edge!...

Another day another development opportunity, this time an old school with plenty of scope to make an amazing home. The location is in the...

Saint Andrew's Day, is the feast day of Andrew the Apostle. It is celebrated on 30 November. Saint Andrew's Day marks the beginning of...

Blimey! It's been a month since we posted anything as we have been soooo busy! All will be revealed soon, but in the meantime, this is...

John The current house we have is pretty nice to be honest. It's a modern 4 bed detached - the original marketing would have called it an...

Since we started talking about moving to Scotland most people have asked us whether we had considered somewhere closer to home. So many...

What has amazed us about the process of buying in Scotland is just how long it seems to take to happen. We have been following the...

After the last property in Dumfries, Greenbogue Steading, we'd driven back to the West Midlands via both sets of parents (one in...

After New Luce, we headed east through Dumfries and Galloway to this lovely steading on the outskirts of Dumfries itself. Again, time is...

Setting off from Mallaig we headed south towards the next house along the route. It was a long drive (over 5 hours!) and we hadn't had...

So, we're going to tease you into this one - because it's worth the build up! We set off from our slightly random, but welcome hotel and...

By mid morning, we'd successfully gotten to and viewed the three properties we had planned to by this point in time. We were on track,...

We set off to the next house on the hit list and had returned to our musings on retirement and the big move, when John suddenly...

So off we set from Ardgeith Steading to the next property - The Mill House and Steading at Old Ellick. On the way I called the estate...

After the first road trip to Scotland - 500 miles up, 500 miles down, for a 30 minute viewing, together with the aftermath (exhaustion...