This four-bedroom home on North Gardner Street in Partickhill, Glasgow, is on sale for offers of more than £965,000 with Rettie ANDREW LEEWalk down Bath Street in Portobello, Edinburgh, without looking up and you might not notice what has been lauded as the “future of Scottish housebuilding”. Between a row of rosy, sandstone tenements and a Georgian townhouse stands a wedge of four-storey homes. Divided into four flats, each is bespoke and created to its owners’ specifications. However, the residents did not buy off-plan from a developer — they designed the properties after setting themselves up as a limited company, which enabled them to borrow from a building society as a group. The owners behind 26BS believe that finding a vacant plot in a high-density area and building a home is a more cost-effective and creative alternative to the limited new-build options on the market in Scotland.

Source: The Times February 08, 2019 00:05 UTC