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Scottish House Prices BOOMING!!!!!

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Average Male Mean Average = £39,018
    http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ASHE-2009/tab7_7a.xls

    LOL.

    Love how you have taken the average MALE mean.

    After all that banging on about buying houses in couples.

    Average mean wage don't look as good though, I'll admit ;)
  • Bullfighter
    Bullfighter Posts: 414 Forumite
    Enjoy the 'possible' suckers rally whilst it lasts.

    When Scotland ‘to lose 30,000 jobs in public sector’ occurs and
    Scotland’s unemployment count will increase to 225,000 and more than 30,000 public sector jobs will go in the next parliament, according to a respected economic forecast.

    maybe haggis will step in and buy the houses?
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    edited 7 June 2010 at 5:51PM
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    LOL.

    Love how you have taken the average MALE mean.

    After all that banging on about buying houses in couples.

    Average mean wage don't look as good though, I'll admit ;)

    Graham,

    It's been explained before to you time and time again how the average male mean has been used in house price affordability calulations.

    It's also been explained to you before about how lower earning people are not house buyers.

    I've also previously used and shown average male mean combined with part time female as examples of joint couples.

    So I'm not going to sit down and explain it all again.

    My signature is testamant in trying to explain things to you.
    So I'm not going to try again.
    Once bitten, twice shy and all that
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Bullfighter wrote: »
    Enjoy the 'possible' suckers rally whilst it lasts.

    When Scotland ‘to lose 30,000 jobs in public sector’ occurs and



    maybe haggis will step in and buy the houses?

    What does 30,000 as a percentage of 5,000,000+ equate to?
    This says that 30,000 jobs to go which admitedly is not good.
    It does not infer that all 30,000 will remain out of work

    Also consider it's 30,000 over 4 years, that's 7,500 per year so things can look quite a bit different over that time.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Prudent
    Prudent Posts: 11,650 Forumite
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    edited 7 June 2010 at 6:32PM
    [FONT=Arial+0][FONT=Arial+0]Although I would agree with Hamish's figures, I think the areas selected do represent the pick of the price rises. [/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial+0]I live in Clackmannanshire. Its a small county in Central Scotland which has increased in prosperity over the last few decades. Improved transport links meant in that 2007 the whole county seemed to be a giant building site with 4 bed new builds in their hundreds popping up everywhere.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial+0]In April 2007 104 properties were sold at an average £137,969. [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial+0]In April 2010 36 properties were sold at an average of £128,079.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial+0]I am no good at maths so can't work out the percenatge drop. The biggest difference is in the volume of sales. There are over 500 properties for sale here (it is a small area), so there is no shortage of supply.[/FONT]
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    [/FONT]    [/FONT]
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    lucylucky wrote: »

    "SOME Scottish House Prices Booming - others not so"

    Yes, the ones where people want to live....:D
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    chucky wrote: »
    got to give it to you Hamish - you do go looking for trouble :)

    Just pointing out the facts....:D
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • bear1969
    bear1969 Posts: 171 Forumite
    you must have been the landlord from aberdeen who asked his renters if they could say they were part of some christian org so he could cram more people in and make more money out of one house are you ,you must live in some different abd cause houses aint shifting much here in grampian
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    bear1969 wrote: »
    you must have been the landlord from aberdeen who asked his renters if they could say they were part of some christian org so he could cram more people in and make more money out of one house are you ,you must live in some different abd cause houses aint shifting much here in grampian

    Punctuation, formation of sentences and paragraphs, challenging data with a credible theory.....

    All things you may learn one day.;)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • twadge_face
    twadge_face Posts: 594 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    The vast majority that post here could have bought anytime prior to 2007 with a 100% mortgage if need be. But chose not to, as they wanted to see our "crumbling piles of bricks" devalue so they could pick up a "cheapo house".

    Remind me again, what's that German word for Schadenfreude....;)

    Anyone could've taken on sub-prime debt prior to 2007. Smart move.

    Can't believe you are advocating this.

    You seem pretty smart when you're not being wilfully odious to those less fortunate than yourself.

    But then, everything is simples in retrospect.
    Long live the faces of t'wunty.
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