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Greenbank Road, Greenbank, Edinburgh, EH10

Scotland

£675,000

Listed on 20/10/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
3
Type
Detached
Area
1581 sqft

Features

  • Garage
  • Garden

Description

This three-bedroom detached house provides approximately 1,581 sq ft of accommodation in Greenbank, with an integral garage and private gardens. The layout includes a vestibule and central hall, a front dining room with a bay window, and a rear sitting room with a fireplace and access to a conservatory. The kitchen is next to a shower room, while upstairs are three bedrooms, a family bathroom and a large store cupboard. The property is described as requiring modernisation, with scope to update the interiors and consider changes to the ground-floor arrangement, subject to the necessary consents. Outside, the garden includes a greenhouse, and the garage provides additional storage or parking space. The sale includes the carpets, curtains except those on the French windows, dishwasher, fridge, chest freezer and cedarwood greenhouse. Greenbank is south of Edinburgh city centre, with local amenities in Morningside and Bruntsfield, nearby open spaces including the Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Hill, and public transport links towards the centre. The City Bypass and routes to the airport and wider motorway network are also accessible.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.

58out of 100
Grade DWeak opportunity

Confidence: MEDIUM

This is a substantial detached home in sought-after Greenbank, with generous reception space, a bay-windowed dining room, conservatory, garage and an established garden with greenhouse. The photographed interiors are clean and usable but dated, giving a buyer scope to refresh the décor and flooring and choose whether to modernise the kitchen and bathroom; the listing also identifies potential to reconfigure the ground floor, subject to consents.

At £427/sq ft, the asking price is slightly below the local average of £432/sq ft, which is a reasonable starting point for a project in this location. The light renovation range is £4,500–£12,750, but the score remains weak overall: at the renovation midpoint, the indicative total is essentially level with the local average-value benchmark, before fees or other purchase costs.

Key opportunities

  • Refresh the dated but usable interior finishes, including carpets and decorative scheme, while retaining sound existing features.
  • Modernise the timber-finished kitchen and older bathroom to suit a buyer’s taste.
  • Explore a ground-floor reconfiguration, subject to the necessary consents, alongside the conservatory, garage and established garden.

Key risks

  • The indicative purchase price plus renovation midpoint is essentially level with the local average-value benchmark, leaving little apparent margin before fees or other purchase costs.

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Location

Greenbank Road, Greenbank, Edinburgh, EH10
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Current average variable rate is 6.60%

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£2,550
Based on a loan of £506,250 over 30 years at 4.45% interest

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