Want to make your mark in property? Then you’ve two options. You can either identify the undiscovered areas set to be the new regeneration hot spots or you can concentrate on locations already identified as the best places to live in Scotland.
With s1jobs you can find vacancies with estate agents and developers across the country. But if you’re smart you’ll use your personal knowledge of the property market to make a home for you in this exciting jobs sector.
So which property locations are booming?
Well, to know that you’ve only to check recent studies of the best places to live in the UK.
For example, earlier this year The Halifax placed Orkney at number two on its list of top locations for quality of life, with Shetland the next-placed Scottish location at number 18.
Meanwhile North Berwick topped a Sunday newspaper list of Best Places to Live in Scotland.
Other outstanding locations included Banchory, Dundee and Gairloch in Wester Ross.
Whenever a list like this is published, local estate agents are deluged with enquiries from far and wide, as property-buyers from less-favoured areas seek to relocate to a more idyllic location, even if it’s in a remote part of Scotland.
Meanwhile it’s in our urban areas that opportunities to benefit from regeneration can be found.
With local authorities concentrating efforts on revitalising town centres there are new and desirable residential districts emerging in our cities all the time.
So how do you identify where these communities will be in advance?
A top tip is to look for new infrastructure projects, such as the potential tram extension project in Edinburgh that could see Newhaven connected to the network.
If this happens, locations along the line should experience a boost in house prices and an influx of new developments.
And it’s not just in hitherto overlooked areas that prices can experience a boost from new projects. The opening of a new Waitrose supermarket, for example, can push prices upwards.
Since Wholefoods Supermarket arrived in Giffnock in 2012, new shops, cafes and restaurants have arrived too, making this already desirable suburb of Glasgow even more sought-after.
David Simpson, who has worked as an estate agent for more than a decade, has one golden rule of regeneration targeting.
He says: “Whenever I see a coffee shop opening where there hasn’t been one, then I know that area is on the up.”
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