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…
Home.co.uk, a ‘scraper’ property website that harvests data from other websites and collects it all into one website, has reported that asking prices have dropped. http://www.home.co.uk/guides/news/story.htm?uk_home_prices_take_a_seasonal_dip Scotland has witnessed a 1.2 per cent drop in asking price in that period. England and Wales 0.2% drop. The question is, of course, so what? This is a…
Hmmm…so I had a meeting with a lady today who works with a lot of estate agents and she tilted her head sympathetically to one side and asked how things were going. She clearly expected the news to be dire! She seemed genuinely surprised to hear that things were going really well. The news she…
As November nears an end, it’s easy to assume that property buyers and sellers down tools, pick-out their favourite reindeer jumper, start planning some witty repartee for the office Christmas party and that they generally are doing anything other than thinking about buying or selling a house. Buyers, as I’ve been at pains to point…
Deck the Halls… With Christmas songs playing in every shop in town and people already talking about whether they are going to be serving turkey on 25 December or whether they are considering breaking the mould by serving some fashionable new bird like a steroid-enhanced speckled sparrow that they thought looked good on an episode…
Greek crisis. Italian crisis. French banks in crisis. Protestors sitting in cathedrals and not going anywhere. X Factor scandals… It seems that the focus of our media has been so distracted by potential melt-down, disaster and insipid covers of Ed Sheeran songs that they’ve forgotten to resort to unduly negative stories about the property market…
The latest House Price Survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has just come out. What is it saying about the property market in Scotland?
I’m going to divide this Property Market Update into two sections. First, a general market update which hopefully, as always, helps to give an ACTUAL take on what is happening in the property market rather than headline-grabbing statistics that can often be read in the newspapers. Second, I’ll cover the new Stamp Duty regime, announced…
Ho, ho, ho! It’s the Festive edition of our Property Market update. Now, we COULD go through the various statistics and headlines from the property market in 2013, regurgitating work that we have already done and counting down, from Number 50 to Number 1, the best moments of the year. But that’s slightly lazy in…
We are very optimistic about the housing market in Edinburgh and the Lothians in 2013. Whilst property prices certainly haven’t been flying upwards, they have remained stable through 2012. So what’s the outlook and why do we feel this way?
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