Scottish house price drop.

crusty_toenail

boomerangs wrote: »

Maybe house prices are plummeting because it's a cold, miserable dump and no decent person would want to live there.

Yes, it really is :rotfl: Who would want to live there.
Reminds me a bit of Northern Ireland (coldness) not so miserable though here in NI and we are down 42% from 2007 peak!!!! This is just the beginning for Aberdeen.

Incase Hamish checks over my recent posts, I have just bought another house in NI and have no vested interest to talk market up or down:rotfl:

bernard_shaw

boomerangs wrote: »

Maybe house prices are plummeting because it's a cold, miserable dump and no decent person would want to live there.

I believe that Aberdeen now has more lapdancing clubs than bookshops.

boomerangs

bernard_shaw wrote: »

I believe that Aberdeen now has more lapdancing clubs than bookshops.

So you're agreeing with me. Aberdeen is a good place for pimps and prostitutes to live but not any decent person.

damanpunk

It's not that bad, infact I quite like it. Hence why I bought a house here (well that and the far above average wages)

mitchaa

boomerangs wrote: »

Maybe house prices are plummeting because it's a cold, miserable dump and no decent person would want to live there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8421193.stm

Aberdeenshire is a gorgeous part of the country. Why would Donald Trump waste £1bn on a golf resort in a miserable dump?

Come on then, let us know where you live, I am sure we will be able to rip it to pieces:D

Only in Aberdeen will you find a Porsche on every street corner:p;)

IveSeenTheLight

LOL, wuite funny really.
Here is the data from the ROSEA, a much better source for house prices in Scotland.

Where is the -10%?

IveSeenTheLight

Latest quarterly ROSEA release here
http://www.ros.gov.uk/pdfs/Statistical%20Publication%20(Oct%20-%20Dec%202009)%20issued%20Feb%202010%20Final.pdf

bernard_shaw

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

LOL, wuite funny really.
Here is the data from the ROSEA, a much better source for house prices in Scotland.

Where is the -10%?

From the same source (Registers of Scotland), on this page:

http://www.ros.gov.uk/public/news/latest_house_prices.html
text version:
http://www.ros.gov.uk/public/news/press_release_flash/28day.pdf

IveSeenTheLight

Statistical News Release from ROSEA
http://www.ros.gov.uk/pdfs/V3_FINAL_%20ros%20Statistical%20Release%20Oct%20-%20Dec%202009.pdf

bernard_shaw

boomerangs wrote: »

So you're agreeing with me. Aberdeen is a good place for pimps and prostitutes to live but not any decent person.

It is small wonder that Aberdeen has so few bookshops, given the extent to which authors have pilloried it.

Martin Amis, when researching his novel Yellow Dog, visited Aberdeen to explore the novel's themes of pornography, sexual exploitation, depravity, ethical decline, violence and male abuse of power over women. He later described Aberdeen as "the epicentre of gloom" and "one of the darkest places imaginable".

The Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre has described Aberdonians as "greedy, humourless, ungrateful, conceited and whingeing".

Travel writer Paul Theroux went much farther, describing Aberdeen's pubs as being full of "drunken, bad-tempered men". He also said it was "a cold, stony-faced city, unwelcoming and smug" and populated by "the most unbearable Scottish stereotypes... the sort of tight-fistedness that made me think of the average Aberdonian as a person who would gladly pick a halfpenny out of a dunghill with his teeth". I suppose that what Theroux's getting at is that money is the most important thing in Aberdeen, and the inhabitants will go through any self-humiliation and degradation in search of it.

Judging by the comments of some of the contributers here, all these sentiments ring true.