Hope you enjoyed the longest day of the year. About the only thing that can be said is that we had an extended period of daylight in which to watch the rain stoating off the pavements outside our windows. This isn’t a random whinge…the property market in June certainly hasn’t been helped by the weather. Below…
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…
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…
Reports today in The Herald that, according to Registers of Scotland data, East Renfrewshire has replaced Edinburgh as the highest house price area in Scotland. However, as always, beware such statistics! http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/edinburgh-is-knocked-off-top-spot-for-house-prices-1.1115419
Apologies for the slightly late posting of this month’s property market update. The only excuse I have is that, as business goes from strength to strength, our head valuer has been off on holiday this past week and a half and I am filling in for him in his absence and, quite honestly, I’ve got…
Amidst all the Edinburgh Festival shennanigans, it’s been hard at times, in Edinburgh and the Lothians, to remember that the world continues normally behind the plethora of closed streets, visitors and Oxbridge students pushing flyers in the face of anyone who dares to make eye contact with them. We would normally, in August, expect to…
Do the Mo-bot, Jessica En-nnnnnnnis, Sir Chris, Bradley the Mod, Ben Ainsleeeeee, Victoriaaaaaaaa Pendleton, Murray’s Mound and of course Big Boris (to make his real nickname a little more family-friendly)…go Team Geeeee Beeeeeeeee!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh, sooooooooo exciting!!!!!!! It wouldn’t be surprising amongst this smorgasbord of sporting triumph that people might have been a bit distracted from…
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?
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