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Cities, Glasgow, Investment
2014, Glasgow’s Year To Shine
2014, Glasgow’s Year To Shine It turns out that 2014’s a big year for Glasgow. Not only is there the Commonwealth Games being staged across the city, but Scotland’s largest city is also hosting the MTV Europe Music Awards, and the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony. However, before all of that, this […]
Property Partners
Are You Partner Material? Talk To Cairn Property Partners
Are You Partner Material? Talk To Cairn Property Partners The property industry thrives on “people”, people with business acumen. Putting landlords with great tenants in the right property is the key to successful residential property investment. Cairn Property Partners is an expanding network of property consultants supported by centralised property management services. Customer service and […]
Buy To Let, Investment
Advice For Investors And Landlords
Advice For Investors And Landlords Despite both selling and letting properties, investment is very much at the core of Cairn’s business. We’re regularly approached by investors looking for us to help them source and let out a property on their behalf, especially for the HMO market. But we don’t just specialise in just sourcing and […]
Buy To Let, Investment, Letting
HMO Properties, An Investors Dream
HMO Properties, An Investors Dream For many students, at this time of year, as well as exams, thoughts turn to their housing situation for the following term. Many who choose not to stay in student halls find themselves on the hunt for an HMO (house of multiple occupancy) property where they can share the property […]
General
Demolishing The Red Road Flats, A Celebration Or An Insult?
Demolishing The Red Road Flats, A Celebration Or An Insult? At Cairn we like to keep our finger on the pulse of all that’s happening in the property industry, whether it be buying, letting, or investing. However we also keep a close eye on what’s going on close to home, and there’s one story in […]
Student Accommodation
Waiting List for New West End Student Flats Now Open
Waiting List for New West End Student Flats Now Open We’re delighted to inform you that the waiting list for new student accommodation in Glasgow’s west end, Hyndland House, is now open for next term (August 2014). We invite interested parties to contact us either by phone or email to arrange a date and time […]
Recruitment
Cairn Recruiting Property Managers For Its Glasgow Office
Cairn Recruiting Property Managers For Its Glasgow Office We’re currently seeking two experienced Property Managers based at our Head Office, Gibson Street, Glasgow. Founded in 1999, Cairn is the vision of MD David Rowand – a company providing more for clients than merely Estate Agency or Property Management. Expert teams deliver a comprehensive property service […]
Cities
Living In Dundee
Living In Dundee At Cairn we know that the market is such just now that it would be madness to make a decision as big as buying or investing in a property without doing a little research first of all. Previously we’ve created blog posts about living in Glasgow and about living in Edinburgh. Although […]
Legislation, Letting
Landlord Legislation
Landlord Legislation Thinking of becoming a landlord? It’s perhaps not as straight forward to you as first thought. Do you know just how much you’d be responsible for? Deciding whether or not to take the plunge into becoming a landlord isn’t a decision you should take lightly. With this in mind, we’ve created this blog […]