For just a brief week or so there it looked like our ‘Top Ten Tips for Selling in Autumn’ might have been redundant as soon as they were published, with ‘Selling in Winter’ being a more appropriate title for the article. Thankfully, order seems to have been restored and the trees are turning a lovely…
Well, we wondered what was going to happen this month, what with the Olympics being finished and everyone finally having their children back at school. We expected it to be busy. However, we didn’t expect it to be THIS busy! The property market has taken off in a way that we really didn’t expect. This…
It’s nearly three years now since the introduction of Home Reports in Scotland. The general consensus in the property and estate agency industry is that they have been bad news. So it might surprise you to know that, as someone who runs a firm of estate agents, I actually think that the Home Reports have…
This month’s RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) housing market survey has reported falling numbers of property buyers and sellers across the UK along with falling confidence from chartered surveyors as to the direction that the UK property market is heading. Are these RICS statistics useful when looking at the Scottish property market and, if…
“I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” So that was apparently the best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Officially. As voted for by somebody who I can’t remember, but clearly authoritative enough that the BBC thought fit to report it. The creator of this…
Property Market Update – April 2010 – General Election Special! It’s been understated, dignified throughout and in no way resembled children chucking mud at each other in a playground: yes, I’m talking about the General Election. Mercifully we are almost at the end of the campaign and in less than a week it will be…
The nights are fair drawing in, aye. But with shorter days and longer nights we haven’t seen any slowing-down of the property market. Quite the opposite. It appears that, in the absence of being able to go out and actually do anything else in the evenings, more and more people are taking that time to…
It’s been another quite surprising month so far this month. If you were under the impression that we would all be preparing, as estate agents, for hibernation then, regardless if that was the plan, the fact is that we are pretty far from bedding down in the straw of our lovely, cosy cave. However, before…
After a predictably slow August, we were of course hoping to see September come roaring back. And from our point of view it has, returning to the types of volumes that we saw at the busiest times of this year. During the month there has been a lot of negative Press around concerning the property…
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