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An estate agent helps you buy, sell or let property - handling valuations, marketing, viewings, negotiations and the paperwork that comes with moving home.

Scotland's property market works differently from the rest of the UK. Solicitor-estate agents handle much of the buying and selling process, combining legal conveyancing with property marketing under one roof - a model that is far more common here than in England.

Check they are registered with a professional body such as RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), the Law Society of Scotland or NAEA Propertymark and ask about their fee structure upfront - percentage-based, fixed fee and sole vs multi-agency all affect what you pay.

Pittenweem is a working fishing village in the East Neuk of Fife - its harbour is the most active in the area, with boats landing prawns and lobster daily.

The village takes its name from the Pictish for 'place of the cave', referring to St Fillan's Cave, a 7th-century hermit's retreat that can still be visited below the priory.

Pittenweem hosts an annual Arts Festival each August that transforms houses, gardens and public buildings into exhibition spaces, drawing thousands of visitors.

The village has a steep, attractive High Street lined with traditional Fife vernacular buildings - crow-stepped gables, pantiled roofs and colourfully painted facades.

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Fife is a large peninsula in eastern Scotland, bounded by the Firth of Forth to the south and the Firth of Tay to the north - a geography that has given it a distinct identity and earned it the traditional title of 'The Kingdom of Fife'.

Dunfermline is the largest settlement and a former capital of Scotland, granted city status in 2022, while Glenrothes serves as the administrative centre and St Andrews is known worldwide as the home of golf and Scotland's oldest university.

The south-west of Fife has a strong industrial heritage - coal mining and shipbuilding shaped towns like Cowdenbeath, Lochgelly and Rosyth - while the East Neuk coastline is defined by a string of picturesque fishing villages: Anstruther, Crail, Pittenweem and St Monans.

Inland, the Howe of Fife is fertile agricultural land dotted with market towns like Cupar, Auchtermuchty and Falkland, the last of these home to a beautifully preserved Renaissance palace.

Fife is well connected to Edinburgh via the Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing and to Dundee via the Tay Road Bridge, making much of the region practical for commuters while retaining a strong sense of local identity.