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Independent estate and letting agents for Edinburgh and the Lothians. Selling, letting and full management, transparently priced and genuinely answerable to you.
Both are free and instant on screen. No email needed to see the number, and the comparable sales or lets come with it.
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Where you want to live, how many bedrooms, and roughly what you’re paying now. We’ll be in touch when something matches.
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- Edinburgh median price, 2023
£268,961
Up 22% on 2018, across every residential sale the register holds for the city.
Checked 5 September 2026. Every council area
- LBTT on that home
£3,048
The tax a mover pays on the median Edinburgh purchase, at Revenue Scotland's current residential bands. Buy-to-let adds the supplement.
Checked 9 August 2026. Work out yours
- Band D council tax, 2026-27
£1,626 to £1,816
The council's own charge, before water, across Edinburgh and the three Lothians. A band D home pays a different bill a few miles apart.
Checked 7 September 2026. Every band, every council
- Newest planning consent
470 homes
Colinshiel Armadale, Armadale & Blackridge: consent granted 25 August 2026, the most recent on the councils' records.
Checked August 2026. The newest consents
For investors
Buying to let in Edinburgh and the Lothians
What the return is made of, what a limited company changes and who it fits, and where yield and growth sit between the capital and the counties.
Income
4.8% to 6.6%
Typical gross yields across Edinburgh and the three Lothians. Gross: before every cost the investment page itemises.
Growth
+22% to +45%
Five-year moves in the four council areas’ median sale prices, 2018 to 2023. The register records what happened, not what is next.
Depth
17,031
Residential sales registered across the four councils in 2023. What a market you can sell back into looks like.
Median prices and sale counts: Registers of Scotland, via statistics.gov.scot, 2023 against 2018, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, fetched 5 September 2026. Yields are our own indicative figures for a typical two-bedroom let, gross. They come from a different source from the register’s prices, and the two are deliberately not divided into each other. Arithmetic on published rates, not investment advice.
New homes
Every new build site with consent, on one map
Every housing site with planning consent across Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian, drawn from the four councils' own housing land audits and their live planning registers. Who is building, how many homes, and how far along.
Sites
1,073
Across 4 council areas, from single plots to whole new neighbourhoods.
Homes with consent
76,935
Counted once each: a site the audit already holds under another name is drawn but not added.
Still to build
67,700
What is consented and not yet finished — the pipeline, rather than the record.
Builders on site now
238
Under construction today, which is the set with completion dates worth planning around.
The newest consents
All recent consents →- Colinshiel ArmadaleArmadale & Blackridge470 homes · consented 25 August 2026
- WhitecraigWhitecraig363 homes · consented 7 April 2026
- Block X WinchburghBroxburn, Uphall & Winchburgh98 homes · consented 11 February 2026
- 76 homes · consented 3 February 2026
- Falkirk Road LinlithgowLinlithgow13 homes · consented 31 October 2025
Compiled from the four councils' own housing land audits and their live planning registers. Last updated August 2026, and refreshed monthly.
Why Lintel
One agent, from the valuation to the keys
Properties are priced against what comparable homes let and sold for, every fee we charge is published on one page, and the same person handles yours from the first valuation to the day the keys change hands.
- Priced to the street. Rental markets in Scotland change within a mile. We value against the comparables, and show you the ones we used.
- Every fee published. One page, the same for everyone, with no negotiated rates and nothing that surfaces later in the tenancy.
- One point of contact. No branch network and no ticket queue. The person who values your property is the person who answers the phone.
Reviews
What clients say, in their own words
Every review here was written on our Google Business Profile by the person named, and appears as they wrote it. We cannot edit a word of it, which is the point.
5 out of 5 · a month ago
i recommend highly of Lintel Homes despite of them being new in market. hopefully they provide same quick response and level of customer service throughout
Read on Google Maps5 out of 5 · a month ago
Great experience working with the team at Lintel Homes. They were really helpful, clear, and easy to deal with from day one. Top-quality service!
Read on Google Maps
Ratings and reviews from Google Maps
For landlords
Find a tenant, or hand the whole thing over
Three levels of service, from letting alone to the whole tenancy run for you, whether we find the tenant or one is already in place. One schedule of fees covers all of them.
Try it
Work it out here, before you ask anyone
Four things people ring an agent to ask, answered by the public figures instead. Each one is ours, runs in the page, and quotes its source.
Land and Buildings Transaction Tax
Set the price you would pay. LBTT is charged in bands, so the rate in the headline is never the rate on the whole price.
Tax due at settlement
£2,100
That is 0.84% of £250,000, the rate you pay across the whole price, as opposed to the 2% band the price reaches.
- LBTT
- £2,100
How that is worked out
| Band | Rate | Taxed here | Tax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to £145,000 | 0% | £145,000 | £0 |
| £145,001 to £250,000 | 2% | £105,000 | £2,100 |
| Total | £2,100 | ||
Rates published by Revenue Scotland. Residential bands in force since 1 April 2021 and the 8% supplement since 5 December 2024; both were confirmed unchanged for 2026-27 and last checked against the source on 9 August 2026. ADS applies only where the price is £40,000 or more. This is the tax on an ordinary purchase of one home by an individual, and it is not the whole cost of buying: your solicitor’s fee, registration dues and any mortgage or survey costs sit on top. Linked transactions, buying through a company, mixed-use property and multiple dwellings relief all work differently. It is arithmetic on published rates rather than tax advice, so check the figure with your solicitor before you rely on it.
For landlords
Is the property compliant?
Answer a few questions and get the list of what a Scottish let needs before a tenant moves in, with the ones you are missing at the top.
Run the check →
For landlords
What would it let for?
A rental figure from the street and the stock, with the postcode checked against where we work before you type anything else.
Get a rental valuation →
For everyone
What is the council tax?
Every band in every council we cover, as the councils publish it, with the water charges and last year's rise beside it.
See the tables →
Changing law · 2026
Rent controls are coming to Scotland. Here’s what changed in April, and what changes on 6 October.
The first phase of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 is now in force. That does not mean your rent is capped today; no rent control areas exist yet. What it does mean is that councils have started assessing local rent conditions, and that if you are asked for rent data you have 28 days to provide it or face a fine of up to £1,000.
We’ve written a plain-English guide for landlords covering the timeline, what is exempt, and what to do before councils report in May 2027.
Read the 2026 rent control guide1 April 2026
Framework in force
Rent control powers commence. Councils gain the power to request rent data from landlords and tenants.
6 October 2026
Eviction penalties rise
A wrongful-termination award moves from at most six months’ rent to between 3 and 36 times a month’s rent, for tenancies ended on or after this date.
By 31 May 2027
Council reports due
Every local authority must report on rent conditions in its area to Scottish Ministers.
Late 2027 onwards
Rent control areas possible
Ministers may designate rent control areas. Mid-market rent and some build-to-rent stock is exempt.
Guides
Scottish property law, explained without the jargon
Scotland's rules differ sharply from England's. These are the things buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants get caught out by most often.
For landlords
ReviewedScottish rent controls in 2026: what landlords need to know
Rent controls in Scotland: the 2025 Act commenced on 1 April 2026, no rent control area exists yet, and the next changes land on 6 October 2026.
Read the guide →
For landlords
ReviewedThe Scottish landlord compliance checklist
Registration, EPC, EICR, gas safety, interlinked alarms, the Repairing Standard and HMO licensing: everything a Scottish landlord must have, in one list.
Read the guide →
For sellers
ReviewedSelling a home in Scotland: the whole journey, in order
How to sell a house in Scotland: the Home Report, pricing, notes of interest, closing dates, missives and settlement, and where each stage goes wrong.
Read the guide →
For tenants
ReviewedTenancy deposits in Scotland: your rights
Lodged within 30 working days, capped at two months' rent, never used for fair wear and tear: your deposit rights in Scotland, and how to challenge.
Read the guide →
For landlords and tenants
ReviewedThe Private Residential Tenancy explained
Every Scottish tenancy since December 2017 is a Private Residential Tenancy: no end date, no fixed term, 18 grounds for eviction. How it works.
Read the guide →
For buyers
ReviewedBuying a home in Scotland: from first look to keys
How to buy a house in Scotland: mortgage first, solicitor early, the Home Report before you view, and why the bank lends on the valuation, not your bid.
Read the guide →
Where we work
The city has the depth. The county has the yield.
Edinburgh and the three Lothians behave differently a few miles apart. The capital carries the deepest tenant demand and resale market in Scotland at the tightest yield; the counties across the bypass carry the stronger gross yields and, on the register’s last five years, the stronger price moves. We work all four, and price to the street rather than to the area average.
- West Lothian7 areas covered
- Median price 2023
- £210,000
- Five years
- up 45%
- Typical gross yield
- 6.6%
- Midlothian10 areas covered
- Median price 2023
- £261,000
- Five years
- up 42%
- Typical gross yield
- 5.9%
- East Lothian7 areas covered
- Median price 2023
- £283,998
- Five years
- up 42%
- Typical gross yield
- 5.6%
- Edinburgh11 areas covered
- Median price 2023
- £268,961
- Five years
- up 22%
- Typical gross yield
- 4.8%
Median prices and the five-year change: Registers of Scotland, via statistics.gov.scot, 2023 against 2018, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, fetched 5 September 2026. Yields are our own indicative figures for a typical two-bedroom let, gross. The prices and the yields come from different sources and are deliberately not divided into each other.
Find out what your property is worth, to sell or to let.
A free, honest valuation based on what comparable properties on your street sold or let for, not what we think you want to hear. Not sure which way to go? We’ll run both sets of numbers side by side. No obligation, and no pressure afterwards.