Ooops, there go prices in Scotland, too....

jackieb

carolt wrote: »

Ha ha ha.

No it makes your post look complete nonsense!

Here's my earlier post in this thread to another bull who can't read (post 34):


No, mitchaa - you misread my original post, or the article - or possibly did not bother to actually read either, just went off on your little hobby horse in blind panic at the thought that you might be about to lose some money...

Nowhere did I say that Scottish house prices were currently falling - nor does the article suggest that.

What I said was that changes due to be brought in this summer would probably have the effect of increasing the supply, temporarily, and therefore reducing prices, later this year.

The reason it's not happening yet and has not yet had an effect is because we are still several months away.

It's clear from the figures that Scottish prices are still bucking the trend - but then, as I pointed out above, they lagged the rest of the UK in the last crash too.

Come back in say 9 months and then post that everything is tip top with Scottish house prices, and it will then have some relevance to this thread.

What your relatives did in the recent past is neither here nor there to what prices will do in a few months' time.

FWIW, I have absolutely no interest in talking down (or up) the Scottish property market, personally - I don't live there, wish to live there or have any friends or family living there. I am as detached from it as I am from the US property market, but observe it insofar as - unlike yourself - I believe all the property markets are linked, to some degree, and because I am amused by the shrill cries whenever Scotland is mentioned that 'it's all different there'....

Yeah, like Scotland is an island....


Try bothering to read the original post or indeed any of the comment since, before criticising!

Otherwise you will make yourself appear a bit of a fool!

Excuse me, but who's looking a bit of a fool? You said yourself that you don't live here, have no interest in living here, but you seem to be gloating in the fact that you think prices in Scotland are going to tumble eventually too.
What happened with house prices in the past, is fact. What's going to happen in the future is just speculation.

carolt

Why should I gloat?

It's utterly irrelevant to me.

Why - are you worried about your very large mortgage and falling equity in Scotland?

Oh dear!

mr.broderick

carolt wrote: »

Why should I gloat?

It's utterly irrelevant to me.

Why - are you worried about your very large mortgage and falling equity in Scotland?

Oh dear!

God shes incessent and very irritating...would hate to live with her..but i bet shes a devil between the sheets...:cool:

jackieb

My mortgage is for £40k - hardly huge.

Capricorn_One

This country's become a madhouse.

LilacPixie

RHemmings wrote: »

The population in Scotland is about the same as it was in 1994, and about the same as it was in 1986. It's only gone up and down by very small amounts in the meantime. I can't see any justification for Joyful's claim that Scotland doesn't have enough houses to go around unless the number of houses has been decreasing.

I'm presuming what joyful is getting at is, councils are knocking down there houses and in the majority of cases not replacing them. they are knocking down 16 story tower blocks and repacing them with 20-30 2 and 3 bed semi's.

Where as years ago, maybe even as recently as the late 90's you could apply for a council or HA accomodation no matter what your lifestyle was and dependent on the area get an offer quite easilly. Now unless you are seriously overcrowded or homeless you have no chance.

That means couples/newly weds have no option but to buy, certainly in cities with universitys. As a result its common to have 3-4 people making offers for 1-2 bed flats in average areas.

As an example my 2 bed flat in tayside cost me 31k in 2003 and its in a nice area. 2 bed flats in some of the less desirable areas of tayside are still selling within the week at OO prices of 70k. This is purley because they are the bottom rung of the ladder and often even a 70k mortgage works out cheaper than paying a private rental.

That being said a 3 bed terraced in the next street recently went on for OO 72k needing major work done. According to upmystreet it sold for 93k :eek:

eco-friendly_2

mr.broderick wrote: »

God shes incessent and very irritating...would hate to live with her..but i bet shes a devil between the sheets...:cool:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

eco-friendly_2

CAROLT

Yeah, like Scotland is an island....

Ah ! that's what many are pursuing.

bobby-boy_2

Hi Lilac Pixie sounds like your in Dundee because the council is definetly decreasing its housing stock yet there are still waiting lists! Maybe because they were not allowed to transfer all their stock to a social Landlord a few years back.

carolt

mr.broderick wrote: »

God shes incessent and very irritating...would hate to live with her..but i bet shes a devil between the sheets...:cool:

Whereas you are just incessant and very irritating.