I found a fascinating graph today on Twitter, created and posted by Henry Pryor, one of the UK’s most well-known property market commentators (@HenryPryor). ย The graph tracks the levels of supply and demand for property since 2004. ย It basically seems to show that (a) you are just a likely to sell your property now as…
The Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre (ESPC) has reported that property prices in The Lothians have fallen 5.3% and in Edinburgh they have fallen 3.6% in the past quarter of the year. Is this actually true though? Or are the statistics potentially misleading?
May 2010 – Monthly Scottish Property Market Update My last monthly property market update went out just before the General Election.ย Since then the political landscape in the UK has changed dramatically. The big question for this monthly Scottish property market update is: what is happening in the property market today and how will the…
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 monthโs 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…
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