I'm pleased to say that 2017 has been a good one for Caithness and Sutherland and there is great confidence in the air. Sales are reported by the Registers of Scotland to have increased, overall, in the Highland area by 10.3%. As regards prices, nationally in Scotland, prices increased, overall, [...]
Bruce de Wert Let us start with Brexit. I am very happy to report that, despite the doomsayers, the public shrugged it off! We were delighted to find that nobody in the buying and selling market saw it as an issue. And this despite the politicians getting into [...]
I'll start off with a large dollop of good news issued by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. They expect, in 2014, a rise in prices, throughout Scotland, of 7%. I'm happy to say that I believe that a price rise will come to the North of Scotland. This is [...]
Confidence! I mentioned that in my last article and, boy, do we now have it in spades! All the pundits are predicting a housing boom. Some doomsayers are even predicting a housing bubble! Amazing to think that, only a year ago, there was still a lot of doubt. Not any [...]
The Headlines • Confidence in the property market is much higher than it has been of late. • Sales picked up in December and have kept up momentum. • Mortgages are becoming easier and cheaper to obtain. • There is a great deal of borrowing activity [...]
Imagine the scene - a darkened room, an old crone with a shawl over her head and the crystal ball centred on the table. Draw up a chair whilst I (the old crone) gaze into the future.... First to say is that the omens are better than for a long [...]
In Caithness and Sutherland, specifically, there is no question about it. Prices are dropping - and quite steeply. The statistics for the Highland region, as a whole, are a drop of 4.4% but that, of course, includes Inverness which always seems to do rather better than the rest of [...]
In today’s market, prices can be volatile and, generally, are moving downwards. If the valuation report you are looking at is more than a few months old then it might well be worthwhile to have it refreshed. Effectively, this means that the surveyor is sent back the report and asked [...]
Recent national headlines, to this effect, mirror my own experience, here in the Far North. HM Revenue and Customs reported that there has been an 11% rise in house sales this year and I would certainly confirm that house sales are definitely up. There is speculation, with which I tend [...]
The recent uplift in sales experienced by me and reported in my last blog has now been confirmed in a report on the BBC. The statistics also tend to confir the feelings expressed in m last blog , which was that sellers had come to the view that the market [...]
