With parents across Scotland and shedding a tear after sending their kids off to school for the first time or breathing a quiet sigh of relief that they have some peace a quiet now that the schools are back, property news has continued unabated. Here are the top stories from the past month as well…
The World Cup behind us, the Commonwealth Games are now well under way, the culmination of a year-long countdown and many more years of work behind the scenes. So has this excitement filtered down to the property market? For your monthly round-up of what has been happening in the property market in the past few…
With reports in the media this month that average house prices in Scotland are growing at the longest sustained rate for four years, we thought we would examine ‘average house price’ surveys and the house price reports that lie behind these regular Press reports. So, can you trust house price surveys? Where do they get…
It’s been a busy old month in Scottish property news, with lots of seemingly contradictory stories coming out. So what is the real picture? Is an interest rate rise imminent? What effect has the Mortgage Market Review had so far? We are now almost halfway through the year and about as far into the World…
After the Easter holiday, May has been a month punctuated by various bank holidays, local holidays and public sector holidays, seriously affecting the ability to settle house sales or arrange mortgage finance or find property buyers who weren’t away to the coast for the weekend. In spite of this, the property market continues to build…
Welcome to my property market update for February 2013! The Press hasn’t been too intent on destroying public confidence in the housing market this month, which is good to see. Indeed, that’s been a few months where it appears that Scottish Independence and the trams in Edinburgh have bumped more general property market news off…
As I write my first property market update of 2012, I have just listened to to The Beatles’ ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and have been unable to resist a little wry smile. For those of you whose properties are still standing and have an entire roof after the hurricane and extreme weather that we saw…
The Nationwide bank’s monthly property prices survey suggests that property prices across the UK are remaining very static, having fallen 0.2% in the past month. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/04/uk-house-prices-fell-02-pct-in-april-nat-idUKLNE74301I20110504 Whilst this might look like bad news, after a few years of uncertainty in the property market, I’d suggest that many property owners will take stability over runaway inflation…
It’s the end of 2009 and I thought that I’d stick with tradition and make my predictions as to what will happen in the property market in 2010. Since these are only predictions and not rocket science, and I’ll be the first to admit that I could be completely wrong with any predictions that I…
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