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The opportunities and problems facing golf clubs through the eyes of rural property surveyor Donald Yellowley. Bob Dylan’s song might sigh wistfully about A Simple Twist of Fate, but for Scotland’s hundreds of world-class golf clubs, it must seem that the Fates are conspiring against the

As the COVID-19 restrictions on Scotland’s housing market begin to ease, independent chartered surveying firm DM Hall has prepared a video setting the five steps for a safe survey. With a waiting list in the many hundreds of people looking to have Home Reports undertaken, the company said it i

Scottish residential house prices are not falling through the roof, despite what you may be reading elsewhere, according to Eric Curran, managing partner at DM Hall chartered surveyors. The last thing anybody needs at the moment is someone else banging on about fake news but if you were a house sell

Rural property valuer Gordon King offers his thoughts on Scotland’s post-lockdown energy potential. At the start of the 20th century, the company which became known first as Anglo-Persian Oil then British Petroleum was in deep financial trouble. Its hugely expensive concessions were not produc

DM Hall senior partner, Alan Gordon, talks about the challenges of leadership during the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that for any new role, 33 years should be ample preparation. But taking over as the senior partner of DM Hall, one of Scotland’s leading independent firms of chartered surve

The sector should be assured that the housing market will return at some point, as it always does, writes Eric Curran. Property professionals who have been in the front line for a long period of time tend to become slightly battle-hardened and take the view that, whatever crisis comes around th

Three new partners, eight new directors and six new associates have been appointed by chartered surveyors DM Hall. The new partners are Jonathan Hunter, Musselburgh Residential, Jonathan McManus, West Commercial Agency based in Glasgow and David Telford, Falkirk Residential.

The partners of chartered surveyor practice DM Hall have elected Glasgow-based Alan Gordon to the role of senior partner. Alan Gordon (left) with managing partner Eric Curran

Fife property expert Ewen Sparks has joined chartered surveyor DM Hall as head of the firm’s Cupar office. An established figure in the local property market, Ewen was previously a partner at Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, where he was in charge of valuation surveying services out of the St And

As chartered surveyor John Albiston prepares for retirement, the senior partner at DM Hall talks about his career and changes in his time while serving his local property market in the Highlands. The Scottish poet and dramatist James Thomson pictured the cessation of working life as:

DM Hall has appointed John Kempsell to the role of senior surveyor in its Dumfries office. Born and bred in Dumfries, John, 52, entered the property sector on leaving school as an apprentice bricklayer. Four years later, time-served, he enrolled at the local technical college and emerged with an Ord

Fifteen new homes are set to be created following the sale of a former school in Kirkintilloch to a developer for an undisclosed sum.

Baird Lumsden, the rural property specialist arm of DM Hall, has appointed Jennifer Campbell as its new head of estate agency. Jennifer graduated with a first-class honours degree from Heriot-Watt University and has worked in rural and city property sales for many years, providing expertise on all a

Chartered surveyor DM Hall has increased its expertise with the appointment of a highly respected and hugely experienced quantity surveyor. Brian Kinnell (left) and DM Hall partner Alasdair Seaton

Surveyor Tom Laurie talks about the many, but perhaps little known, exceptions that exist for Home Reports. Home Reports, now a wholly accepted part of Scotland’s residential property landscape, celebrated their tenth anniversary late last year. But, remarkably enough, there remains a signific