• Scotland’s Makar pens 400 year anniversary poem for Registers of Scotland
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    Scotland’s Makar pens 400 year anniversary poem for Registers of Scotland

    28th June 2017

    Four keepers celebrated 400 years of land registration in Scotland as a specially commissioned poem by Scotland’s Makar, Jackie Kay, was read to the public for the first time today.

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  • Average price of a property in Scotland up 6.8 per cent on previous year
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    Average price of a property in Scotland up 6.8 per cent on previous year

    15th June 2017

    The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in April 2017 was £145,734 – an increase of 6.8 per cent on April in the previous year and an increase of 5.4 per cent when compared to the previous month.

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  • Housing market value reaches £143.4 billion in 10 years
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    Housing market value reaches £143.4 billion in 10 years

    7th June 2017

    The total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2007-08 to 2016-17 was just over £143.4 billion, according to a new report published today by Registers of Scotland (RoS).

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  • Landmark for crofting with 4000th registration
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    Landmark for crofting with 4000th registration

    26th May 2017

    A croft in Shetland has become the 4,000th to be registered by Registers of Scotland (RoS). It joins the online Crofting Register, which went live on 30 November 2012 as a result of the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.

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  • Monthly House Price Index statistics for March 2017 published
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    Monthly House Price Index statistics for March 2017 published

    16th May 2017

    The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in March 2017 was £137,139 – an increase of 0.7 per cent on March in the previous year but a decrease of 1.0 per cent when compared to the previous month.

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  • House price index shows 3.3% increase annually in average prices in Scotland
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    House price index shows 3.3% increase annually in average prices in Scotland

    17th January 2017

      We are sending this press release out for a second time today to incorporate a minor addition to the text. It is important to note that all facts and figures in the first release sent out this morning were accurate. In that first release, we stated that the largest…

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  • World’s first national land register turns 400
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    World’s first national land register turns 400

    14th December 2016

    The world’s oldest national register of land and property will celebrate its 400th anniversary during Scotland’s 2017 Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.

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