Scottish Property... opinions?

johng_uk

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't think it's a "they" at all - it's Beerhunter, who posts here from time to time, on his tod.

Again TVM!

Another assumption of mine. I assumed that Firefox was made by a company who sent out a freeware version. Didn't realise that it was a single individual on here!

baby_boomer

Berwickshire news - Borders house prices fall as credit crunch bites Average price of house drops by 2.3 per cent

"....Although Scotland has generally bucked the trend which has seen house values plummet in the rest of the UK since the credit crunch, the [Borders] region appears to be now feeling the pinch.

Statistics released by the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency reveal that the average price of the 608 houses sold from April to June in the area covered by Scottish Borders Council was £162,988 – a decrease of 2.3 per cent on the previous quarter and just one per cent higher than a year ago.
In contrast, the comparative average price for neighbouring Dumfries and Galloway, at £142,971 and based on 667 sales, was up 3.3 per cent on the previous quarter.

And the boom in Edinburgh house prices has continued unabated – up 6.3 per cent in the same three months [to June], based on 3,008 sales....."

dopester

johng_uk wrote: »

Again TVM!

Another assumption of mine. I assumed that Firefox was made by a company who sent out a freeware version. Didn't realise that it was a single individual on here!

Firefox is a stand-alone browser, just as Internet Explorer is a browser.

Property-Bee is a plugin for Firefox.

Firefox was set-out so other programmers can write their own specific programs for it, which may be useful to people in the fields of their interest. There is now a huge range of Firefox plugins and add-ons - although I limit mine to about 5.

For example, I have the KeyScrambler plugin.



So despite all my security precautions, if a keylogger ever found its way on to my system, even one that no virus or trojan scanner has discovered detection methods for... KeyScrambler would defeat it because it encrypts keystrokes at the kernel driver level to defeat known and unknown keyloggers. You see it scramble all your keystrokes as you type.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Any many more useful plugins. Not least Property-Bee.

dopester

baby_boomer wrote: »

And the boom in Edinburgh house prices has continued unabated – up 6.3 per cent in the same three months [to June], based on 3,008 sales....."

This kind of news just seems so distorted. I don't believe it reflects the real situation at all.

mystic_trev

baby_boomer wrote: »

And the boom in Edinburgh house prices has continued unabated – up 6.3 per cent in the same three months [to June], based on 3,008 sales....."

However, this from BBC Website last week.

The average house price in Edinburgh has dropped for the first time in 37 years as the capital's property market is hit by the economic slowdown.

The Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre (ESPC) recorded the 6.5% downturn showing the average property price in the city is now £201,517. Property sales have also dropped by 60% with just 400 homes sold in August.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7593450.stm

Ali1501

dolally wrote: »

Not sure which village you are referring to but if you take Crichie as an example I truly feel that houses there have been well overpriced in the last couple of years.
Lots of property in places like Rosehearty up for grabs but not shifting, I think people will have to start dropping prices up here too - think the old deer properties got dropped by about £40k didn't they?

mine shifted in Crichie , I was VERY lucky!
The properties that have been on before I sold are still on at the same price, I have noticed recent listed properties are slightly lower but not by much. The 'shire' are feeling it more than the inner city of Aberdeen. Property there is still shifting but at a much slower rate. And the properties I have seen (some, not all) are blooming awful! They are expecting people to pay over the odd's to seal a deal, those days have gone, even in Aberdeen.

And I'm getting bored looking at property now :rolleyes:

Ali1501

mewbie wrote: »

It was a quick throwaway joke, but I can see now how offensive it really was. Believe me I am the last person on these boards to opt for a quick offensive little joke, as my many many friends on here will testify. In fact only the other day I offered up a little bon mot for approval first before posting, lest anyone should be offended by it.

Please bear with me as I attempt to make things better.
cold. I believe it is cold in Scotland as compared to the rest of the country. Personally with that temperature I'd wear trousers rather than a skirt, but you guys are hardy types.
damp. Lots of rain I believe, hence the damp remark.
smells of haggis. I understood haggis was the national dish, implying a certain popularity. I also understand it has a fairly pungent aroma.
full of Scots. No denying that one. It must be full of scots, apart from those who choose to live in England.
no one wants to live there. This is obviously incorrect. Lots of people live there and want to.

I hope that's helped clear things up.

I'm scotlish and it made me giggle

dopester

On BBC's The One Show last night they took a big look at how they believe Aberdeen is doing 1 year in to the credit-crunch.

They made it sound like it was fully booming with no problems at all on the horizon. New clubs and hotels opening, expensive designer boutiques, happy wealthy people.

No mention of Aberdeen's budget crisis.

Available for 7 days on iplayer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dcydn/b00dcybg/

The Aberdeen bit begins around 01:25 in.

Ali1501

dopester wrote: »

On BBC's The One Show last night they took a big look at how they believe Aberdeen is doing 1 year in to the credit-crunch.

They made it sound like it was fully booming with no problems at all on the horizon. New clubs and hotels opening, expensive designer boutiques, happy wealthy people.

No mention of Aberdeen's budget crisis.

Available for 7 days on iplayer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dcydn/b00dcybg/

The Aberdeen bit begins around 01:25 in.

OMG! i'm spitting feathers!

Garreth Wood is at the moment selling his house to move to Edinburgh :rotfl: still on the market! http://www.aspc.co.uk/Search/HomesForSale/index.html 16 RUBISLAW DEN SOUTH
Stewart Milne dropping house prices and delaying building due to lack of sales! Oh aye, Aberdeen is booming :rolleyes:

thanks for that post

nomadicwesti

Prices just outside of glasgow to the north around Drymen , Balfron outwards are still selling vastly over the asking price. No slowdown out there
Westend of glasgow prices are still high and holding up if taking a bit longer to shift. there are also quite a few more fixed prices which isn't a bad thing. Seems we are escaping the brunt so far. Our economy is sluightly better insulated from the economic downturn as 25% of jobs are public sector.

In teh north east the oil boom is raising prices with significant rises.
Edinburgh which has been running at white hot rises for far longer than the rest of Scotland is cooling fast and selling is harder.

In Glasgow it looks liek the not so nice areas are feeling it worse than the nicer areas. The sandstone housing is doing well in tehse areas or should I say not doing bad as yet.

The glasgow harbour new "luxury" flats are suffering badly though

Hope that helps