Owning a private island has got to be one of the ultimate property fantasies – and one person is now living the dream – the island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde has just been purchased by a private buyer after it went onto the open market for the first time in 40 years…

Beatrix Potter and her stories are etched onto the minds of children all over the world – and now you can buy into that history – if you’ve got a spare £760,000 that is – the Potter family’s summer holiday fishing retreat, said to have inspired one of Beatrix’s most famous characters, Jeremy Fisher, is on the market…

In a bid to further assist first time buyers to get their foot onto that first all important rung of the property ladder, the Scottish Government has expanded a scheme which means that buyers will pay from 60 per cent to 80 per cent of the value of the property which will be subsidised by an interest free equity stake…