Contemplating a move from London to Scotland (Edinburgh outskirts )

getmore4less

There was a thread a while back looking West of Glasgow.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/77461467#Comment_77461467

still for sale
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/55445498
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/94573739#/

next door is now up but a bit more 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/83473379#/

I find the draw map on right move a useful tool for the or rural where you can create a custom search that includes smaller areas a long away apart.

getmore4less

11 6 bed detached up to £500k in a drawn area

another west thread from a few years back
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5582760/where-to-buy-in-west-scotland/p1

Gers

Greymug said:

Gers said:

Here's a lovely flat in Glasgow - lovely but above shops!

http://www.cullertonsproperty.co.uk/property-details/?ID=37787

If you look at the same property on Rightmove https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/89216986#/ you can dowload the Home Report (brochure 2).

Typical big and spacious Glasgow flat. Very nicely decorated.

Price is a bit steep for just a flat. You can buy a bigger semi-detached victorian house for less. It's also in an ok area 5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Clarkston Road, Glasgow, G44 (rightmove.co.uk)

You're talking about the South Side, a very different 'beast' to the West End. I'm not advocating one over the other but it's like comparing oranges with apples. 

Hyndland Road isn't in the centre of Glasgow, it's in the West End. 

A majority of housing is tenements, a fabulous form of building which seems to contour  pejorative ideas from those whose only knowledge about them comes from reading about the old Gorbals! 

Anyway, as someone said earlier, use the Right Move tool to define an area for searching. It's really useful. 

Greymug

Gers said:

You're talking about the South Side, a very different 'beast' to the West End. I'm not advocating one over the other but it's like comparing oranges with apples. 

That's the whole point of the thread: comparing what a specific money range can buy you in different areas...

Personally, between West End and the South Side, I would pick...neither. But between a flat and a house, the house wins any day of the week.

Speaking of old properties with character, I've lived in almost a dozen old tenement high ceiling flats in both Glasgow and Edinburgh and for some reason, properties in Glasgow were always freezing and baltic compared to the Edinburgh ones.

To the OP, if you like a gamble you could go for this huge property and hope the council will grant planning permission. Property for sale in Park Avenue, Kings Park, Stirling, FK8 (rightmove.co.uk)

edgex

Greymug said:

Gers said:

You're talking about the South Side, a very different 'beast' to the West End. I'm not advocating one over the other but it's like comparing oranges with apples. 

That's the whole point of the thread: comparing what a specific money range can buy you in different areas...

Personally, between West End and the South Side, I would pick...neither. But between a flat and a house, the house wins any day of the week.

Speaking of old properties with character, I've lived in almost a dozen old tenement high ceiling flats in both Glasgow and Edinburgh and for some reason, properties in Glasgow were always freezing and baltic compared to the Edinburgh ones.

To the OP, if you like a gamble you could go for this huge property and hope the council will grant planning permission. Property for sale in Park Avenue, Kings Park, Stirling, FK8 (rightmove.co.uk)

Generally, the Edinburgh tenements were better built than Glasgow ones. Bit more protected from cold/wet Atlantic wind as well.


That property in Stirling is only for part of the building, you don't get the upstairs.

AlexMac

If I move from my current home in London to Scotland, and

-  if Scotland is driven to independence by Boris, and

- if the Scots apply to re-join the EU, and

- if Spain doesn't block their application in case Cataluna goes the same way...

... will I qualify for EU citizenship?

And will I have to change my MSE UserName?

Or, given the comments above, where ;

Skiddaw1 said:

Sofee3 said:

I agree Edinburgh is very touristy. I live in the North of Glasgow, place called Milngavie, it's a lovely village but has 20min train journey to the city, somewhere like that would be good for you, good schools too, I'd check the secondary schools league table for good schools and then look at those areas. 

Where you start the West Highland Way!

- will it be enough to have completed the West Highland Way, as I did 30 years ago?

- or at least prove that I know you pronounce "Milngavie" as "Mulgai" not millengavee?

Arfa__

Greymug said:

To the OP, if you like a gamble you could go for this huge property and hope the council will grant planning permission. Property for sale in Park Avenue, Kings Park, Stirling, FK8 (rightmove.co.uk)

That's an interesting one and cheap! Have been looking at a few similar nearby to Kings Park Stirling, but they're a lot more money - £600k for posh 6 bed places like this one. Some good schools close to as well there. Very tempting, but we'd need a long hard think if we want to stretch our budget that much and take on the associated higher running/maintenance costs of such property.

But when a move is gonna cost us around £30k it feels counter-intuitive to compromise too much and risk needed to move again in 10 years... Either way, our plan is to spend this summer exploring these areas in-depth, getting a good feel for them before we make decisions.