Author: Robert Carroll
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RICS August 2011 UK Housing Market Survey – What’s It Saying About Property Prices in Scotland and Why is the RICS Survey Useful?
This month’s 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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Monthly Scottish Property Market News and Comment – What’s Happening in the Scottish Property Market? – August 2011
“I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” So that was apparently the best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Officially. As voted for by somebody who I can’t remember, but clearly authoritative enough that the BBC thought fit to report it. The creator of this…
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April 2010 – Property Market Update – General Election Special
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…
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Property Market Update October 2013 – Press, Prices and Comment by MOV8 Real Estate
The nights are fair drawing in, aye. But with shorter days and longer nights we haven’t seen any slowing-down of the property market. Quite the opposite. It appears that, in the absence of being able to go out and actually do anything else in the evenings, more and more people are taking that time to…
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What’s Happening in the Scottish Property Market and Property Prices – MOV8 Real Estate October 2012 Update
It’s been another quite surprising month so far this month. If you were under the impression that we would all be preparing, as estate agents, for hibernation then, regardless if that was the plan, the fact is that we are pretty far from bedding down in the straw of our lovely, cosy cave. However, before…
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Monthly Scottish Property Market News and Comment – What’s Happening in the Property Market and Property Prices in Scotland? September 2011
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…
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Home.co.uk September Home Asking Price Index Shows Property Prices in Scotland and the UK are Down
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…
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February 2010 Edinburgh and Lothians Monthly Property Market Update
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…
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Property Market Update November 2013 – Press, Prices and Comment by MOV8 Real Estate
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…