I was asked recently to provide some predictions for a national newspaper about where the property market was heading for the next couple of years. The questions got me thinking in some detail about these issues and I ended up writing a lot more than I actually sent back to the paper: certainly more than…
In many cities in Scotland, marauding non-solicitor estate agency chains entered the Scottish estate agency market in the early 1970s and mounted a very serious challenge to the traditional dominance that solicitors had in the marketing and sale of property in Scotland. For those of a younger generation, particularly in areas dominated by these national…
The monthly Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Survey has just come out and makes for fairly gloomy reading. However, what it is saying is not what we are seeing in the parts of Scotland we operate in so please note the comments later in this piece after the coverage of what the RICS survey…
Post-Royal Wedding, Post-Plethora of Bank Holiday Weekends, Post-School Holidays, How Has the Property Market Been in May 2011? I’ll be honest: April 2011 was a disappointing month in the property market. The holidays and other distractions certainly took their toll. National property websites reported that the total number of properties coming to the market was…
What’s the Property Market Like at the Moment? Summary: It’s a Charlotte Church Property Market ‘What?’, I hear you gasp, ‘I do hope that he’s not being mean to National Treasure and no.2 only to Cheryl Cole in the nation’s collective affections?’ No, of course I’m not being mean to her. I think she’s a…
Thinking of selling your property but don’t know where to start? Well, the first step is to get an estate agent’s valuation of your property. This will tell you what your property is worth in the current market. Selling your property is one of the biggest decisions you will make, so it’s important to get…
Phew…has it been hot this month?! So, whilst we’ve basked outside, narrowly avoided heatstroke in our offices and on public transport, and nearly had a heart attack when Andy Murray threw away three match points at Wimbledon before giving the nation the result that it craved, the good news is that it’s not just been…
It’s summer holiday time and conventional wisdom has it that this is one of the quieter times of year in the property market. Conventional wisdom also has it that, come the end of the school holidays, the property market picks up again, partly because people aren’t distracted by having to keep little ones amused every…
I’m trying to guage the fellings of potential property sellers in Scotland towards the level of up-front costs that they have to bear if they want to put their property on the market. In particular, is it putting people off selling?
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