Macnairs + Wilson Solicitors Blog & News

In a statistical report published last week, it was found that 317 new adoptive households were approved across 33 adoption services in 2017; a three per cent decrease from the previous year (326) and 11 per cent down from 2015 (355), according to the report from the Care Inspectorate.

Outperforming England and Wales, the average house price in Scotland for the year to end January 2019 was £184,324; an increase of 3.2 per cent, or £5,675, according to the latest data by Your Move.

Cohabitation laws in Scotland are in need of reform as they do not help grieving people or vulnerable individuals, according to a recent report by the Law Society of Scotland.

A study from Barclays Mortgages discovered that 93 per cent of parents who lived in Scotland’s capital were happy in their current property, the highest percentage across the entire UK.

Would-be first-time buyers in Scotland and the East Midlands are more likely to get on the housing ladder alone than those across the rest of the UK, new research has found.