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  • robmatic
    robmatic Posts: 1,217 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    Sorry Cleaver. Time for some enhanced understanding.


    What a ridiculous article. Does it really suggest that prices in Edinburgh rose last year?
  • robmatic
    robmatic Posts: 1,217 Forumite
    CountingPenniesClaire wrote: »
    does anybody know what the ratio of owners : renters is? ie. 50% population own (with or without mortgages) vs 50% population rent

    It's somewhere around 70% owner-occupier.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    robmatic wrote: »
    It's somewhere around 70% owner-occupier.

    It did peak around 73% but I think it's dropped back to around 68%
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    geneer wrote: »
    Sorry Cleaver. Time for some enhanced understanding.

    Okay, you're now right. Well done.
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    Okay, you're now right. Well done.

    Not sure it works like that Cleaver.

    I think the phrase "you were right all around" would have been more accurate.
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