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 some idea of just how much he gets through in a day now: kudos indeed!

Anyway, this month’s Property Market Update is overwhelmingly positive.  We all like good news so here goes…

May 2010 - Monthly Scottish Property Market Update

My last monthly property market update went out just before the General Election.  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 result of the General Election affect the property market in Scotland?  

I’ve also put some tips in here about how to help your property stand out and to sell in what continues to be a very challenging market in most areas.  I hope you will find it useful and engage in the debate!

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 all over.  At that point we can finally resume focus on some of the things that have been getting less column inches than they deserve in the past few weeks, most notably Inter Milan reaching the Champions League final, my band's gig at the Bongo Club last Friday and, of course, property market news.

However, never being one to shy away from jumping on a zeitgeisty bandwagon (or to invent a new word like 'zeitgeisty'), I thought that I'd style the April 2010 Property Market Update as an 'Election Special'.  You can rest assured, however, that there won't be another Election Special for another five years.  So, on with the show...

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 is hearing from most solicitors and estate agents at the moment must still be overwhelmingly negative.

The Press is reporting drops in mortgage lending and yet reporting rising house prices and lots of estate agents and solicitors still seem to be very down in the mouth, so it’s not surprising that people don’t really know what’s happening in the property market at the moment. My job here is to try and cut through this and to let you know exactly what is happening to the property market at the moment. So here goes…