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BBC: Scottish Property Prices Reach All Time High

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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    DaddyBear wrote: »
    And look what genrally happens between September and January..... big falls to come this winter.

    Isn't there a saying that past performance is no gaurantee of future results?
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Doctor_Gloom wrote: »
    Now all you have to do is find someone who wants to live there in the cold, wet, miserable dump. :beer:

    It's been far nicer recently to other areas

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    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Isn't there a saying that past performance is no gaurantee of future results?


    Yes, but only a fool ignores the past.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    DaddyBear wrote: »
    Yes, but only a fool ignores the past.

    true and what does the past reflect for house prices long term?
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    true and what does the past reflect for house prices long term?

    Rises of inflation + 2.9% per annum, as I recall.....: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”
  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Rises of inflation + 2.9% per annum, as I recall.....:D

    This is all very well. But I am not sure many people from England would go up there to buy a house.

    [Most wouldn't have the necessary capital to build an inside toilet.]
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Actually Graham, the average of the entire country reached a new peak.

    Not just Aberdeen.

    The clue was in the thread title......
    could you post a chart or a graph of it please Hamish - it's always good to see the facts and not the usual forum hyperbole...
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    It's been far nicer recently to other areas

    I don't know, I was out in a short sleeve tee-shirt yesterday, balmy November :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    I don't know, I was out in a short sleeve tee-shirt yesterday, balmy November :)

    Didn't realise you were Scottish ;)
    Us Scots are hardenned to cold weather and don't need the same level of clothing to cover our necessities ;)
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Us Scots are hardened to cold weather and don't need the same level of clothing to cover our necessities ;)

    Speak for yourself. You won't catch me wearing a kilt in winter.: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”
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