Edinburgh News: property
Sandwich Business Wins £3000 Shop Front Competition
M1 Sandwich Shop on Easter Road has won the £3000 prize in a Leith shop front competition sponsored by Edinburgh City Council.
Royal Mile To Get A Spring Clean
The historic Royal Mile in the Edinburgh Old Town, is to be given a Spring clean. The work will focus on making the street - which stretches from Edinburgh Castle down to Holyrood Palace - "feel better" to walk in and around, including painting utility boxes and litter bins, removing graffiti and weeds and repairs to other property.
Council's £26m Budget "Boost" Targets Children and Vulnerable
The Lib Dem/SNP coalition announced that the passage of the Council's budget yesterday will see "a massive boost" of £26m investment in priority areas such as children and the most
Three City Properties To Gain £2,145,000 Heritage Grants
Greyfriars Kirkyard (famous resting place of Greyfriars Bobby), a hidden Victorian shopfront on Nicolson Street, and a Victorian communal courtyard in
Video: Salmond Launches Scottish Independence Referendum Consultation
First Minister Alex Salmond uses the birthday of Robert Burns to launch the consultation document on the referendum, to be held in autumn 2014, on whether Scotland should be an independent country.
Trams Grief As Mature Trees Get Chop (Satellite image)
Edinburgh's trams have been causing more upset, and not just with the forthcoming roadworks (see below).
Leithers Urged To Take Advantage of £100,000 Heritage Cash
Shop owners and residents in Leith are being urged to take advantage of a £200,000 grant to restore shop fronts and buildings to their former glory.
Edinburgh World Heritage Offices Move to the Canongate’s Acheson House
Across the road from the Canongate Kirk is the Museum of Edinburgh and alongside it an A listed building that goes back to
Occupy Edinburgh Moving Tents In St Andrew Square
Participants in the Occupy Edinburgh encampment in St Andrew Square have agreed to move to a new location to the edge of the park in time for
Film of the Week: You've Been Trumped
Celebrity tycoon Donald Trump lives up to his billing as a crass egomaniac in You've Been Trumped, a compelling, 95-minute documentary revealing Trump's bullyboy antics as he bulldozes a sensitive coastal ecosystem near Aberdeen to create a mega golf resort.
Videos of High Rise Demolitions Give Council A Pop
It seems people like a demolition. Yesterday's demolition of the three towers in North Sighthill, to make way for 320 new homes (see earlier story), has already become the second most popular video on the City of Edinburgh Council's YouTube channel after 19 hours with 4,165 views.
Sighthill Gets Ready To Blow Highrises to the Ground
The demolition of three multi-storey flats in North Sighthill is scheduled to go ahead this Sunday between 11am and noon.
Whither Now For the Forest?
Freewheeling arts collective The Forest have put out a strongly worded press release expressing how "stunned" they are at the decision to remove them from their venue at the end of the run of the Fringe.
RoS Q1 2011/12: Edinburgh House Prices Drop 2.7%
Registers of Scotland published statistics today showing that the average price of a residential property in Edinburgh dropped 2.7% during the first quarter (April to June) of the financial year 2011/12 compared with the same period the previous year.
Council Offers Cash Incentive To Free Up Under-occupied Homes
Edinburgh City Council is offering up to £1,000 worth of help to tenants in a pilot scheme to tackle the issue of people living in homes that are too big for them.
Edinburgh Methodist Church Sell Central Hall to Morningside Baptist Church for Over £1 Million
Acting on behalf of The City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, An Edinburgh surveyors company has sold the Central Hall at Tollcross in Edinburgh city centre to Morningside Baptist Church for over &p
Demolition of Art Deco Odeon Cinema Gets Thumbs Down
Plans to demolish the auditorium of the former Odeon Cinema on Clerk Street and build an "arts hotel" were given the thumbs down by Edinburgh city councillors yesterday.
Edinburgh House Prices, Sales Drop at Start of 2011
The average Edinburgh house price fell by 4.1% in the first three months of 2011 according to the latest statistics from the official government statistician Registers of Scotland.
ESPC 2011 Q1: Edinburgh House Price Rises £77
The average price of a home in Edinburgh has risen annually just £77 according to the Edinburgh Solicitor and Property Centre (ESPC) statistics for the first three months of 2011.
Napier Sells Historic Campus Site For Development
Edinburgh Napier University’s expansive Craighouse campus has been sold for residential development. The leafy, 51 acre site in the Morningside area dates back to the 12th century and has a colourful past as the home of an asylum and the man who introduced skyscrapers to Japan.
Edinburgh Has Most Expensive Homes in Scotland
Edinburgh has the most expensive residential street and fifteen of the 20 most expensive streets in Scotland, according to a report from the Bank of Scotland.