Real Estate Law and Construction Law

Petra Grunenberg, Head of Rural Property and Business at Shepherd and Wedderburn, discusses the mounting challenges facing Scotland's rural sector as legislative changes converge with political uncertainty. With inheritance tax reforms, land reform legislation, and subsidy scheme overhauls all progressing simultaneously, she explains why rural business owners must seek professional advice now rather than wait for clarity.

Climate change is reshaping Scotland's water landscape, making riparian rights—the legal rights of landowners over rivers flowing through their property—increasingly important for developers and property owners. This article explores the complex framework of Scottish water law, from ancient Roman origins to modern hydroelectric schemes, and examines how competing interests over this finite resource may lead to future legal reforms.

Scotland's Land Reform Act grants public access rights for wild camping, but irresponsible behavior threatens the countryside through wildfires and environmental damage. This analysis examines the legal boundaries between responsible access and trespass, exploring what remedies landowners can pursue when wild campers fail to meet their obligations under Scottish law.

Petra Grunenberg, Head of Rural Property and Business at Shepherd and Wedderburn, discusses the mounting challenges facing Scotland's rural sector as legislative changes converge with political uncertainty. With inheritance tax reforms, land reform legislation, and subsidy scheme overhauls all progressing simultaneously, she explains why rural business owners must seek professional advice now rather than wait for clarity.

A recent High Court judgment provides important and novel guidance on the scope of landlords' covenants in commercial leases, particularly in the context of fire safety defects arising from combustible cladding.

The Government's new military spending programme will drive demand for specialist and logistics assets, create openings for private capital, but raise questions about planning, procurement and energy constraints

Lizzie Egan interviews Aidan Faik, senior private banker and head of landed estates at Weatherbys Private Bank, exploring current trends in rural property finance, from residential portfolio challenges and holiday let opportunities to the complexities of trust structures and biodiversity net gain projects. The conversation examines how Basel 3.1 regulations will fundamentally reshape lending terms for estate owners, and why understanding the residential versus commercial classification of property has becom

In January 2025, the Royal Court of Jersey ordered the sale en licitation (by public auction) of a property that was jointly inherited by four children as owners in common in indivisible shares...

You'll find the answer to this question in a recent episode of ‘The Long-Short' podcast, produced by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), featuring Jersey Finance's Head of Funds, Elliot Refson.

Following a recent government announcement, there is renewed discussion around whether providing more information at the outset of a residential transaction could reduce the number of sales that fall through.

The thrill of an auction room is hard to deny. A gavel falls, a bid wins, and within moments you are the owner of a new property, or so it feels.

Three months ago we wrote about the countdown to mandatory tax adviser registration and wondered what exactly we were counting down to. On 18 May 2026 HMRC opened its online registration portal.