Fife is a county in central Scotland, which has experienced significant growth in the last decade. It’s now home to more than 300,000 people and offers excellent opportunities for families looking to buy property. Fife offers the perfect balance of small-town charm and big-city living. The following guide will help you find everything you need to know about Fife before buying your first house there!
A ‘lovelly’ place to live……
The estate is really close to the main high street. Although small it has two convenience stores both open from early morning until 10pm. The train station also just off the high street has excellent links along the east coast, around 40mins to Edinburgh Waverly and 1hr 30 to Glasgow Central.
Council services are efficient and bins are collected as scheduled on the fife council website. It is a quiet place to live. My house is on a crescent off the main thoroughfare to Burnt island and Kirkcaldy. The road is busy during the usual busy times of day. There are signs showing 20 mph intersected with traffic calming bumps and a light controlled pedestrian crossing. There is ample parking in overflow bays in the estate and for that matter throughout Kinghorn.
Please review your development:
I am happy enough with the layout of the estate. The gardens especially for new builds are sizeable and were properly fenced off with well constructed wooden fences and gates. The house itself is a 3 bed detached with integral garage.
Overall the build quality is of a good standard, the only issues being the front and gable side doors which Lovell replaced with new ones. Property management maintains a fairly decent standard of landscaping and the pond and paths to the rear of the estate are a nice route to Kinghorn main street.
Kinghorn harbour and Pettycur Beach are within short walking distance and lovely for walking especially if you are a dog owner. There are three pubs, a Chinese takeaway and dentist again all on or near the high street. I few up in Lanarkshire where I lived in several parts of it and only moved to Fife five years ago. I wish I had a lot sooner.
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
The estate Facebook group. Please don’t believe every moan and gripe people post. There was apparently and infestation of rats on the estate recently. Nonsense as we live in the countryside surrounded by fields with a loch nearby. Birdseed attracts rodents as well as the intended recipients simply stopping that or cutting back and not leaving food out overnight soon stopped ‘the plague’ (there was one mouse actually spotted) !!!!
What is the best feature of your home:
Its the perfect size for the four of us and our two dogs. Two en suite double bedrooms, and lovely open plan downstairs layout. My front door is 10 mins to either the harbour or in the opposite direction Kinghorn loch.