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Tips to securing a property in a fast-moving market.

In a good and fast-moving property market – as we seem to have in this area at present – for every one buyer who secures a property, there are usually another five or so people who didn’t get the property … Continue reading →

Big news in the Argyll & Bute property market!

We have waited nearly 12 years for this, but Registers of Scotland data shows we have now hit a new record high for quarterly house prices. In other words, house prices are now the highest they have EVER been in … Continue reading →

Why I love Oban

Being an Oban boy, its easy to be blasé about how fortunate I am to live in such a great place, so I thought I’d do a blog (to remind myself if nothing else) of my top ten reasons why … Continue reading →

We’re number one!!

A good time to buy property? Yes, quite possibly

As reported in our last blog, the average house price in Argyll & Bute is lower than it has been in the past, and this is perhaps the strongest evidence to support the notion that there is scope for prices … Continue reading →

Argyll & Bute property market over the last 10 years.

We’ve put together a summary of how property prices in the Argyll & Bute property market have fared over the last ten years. (Click on image to enlarge) The main thing to note is that we are yet to return to … Continue reading →

Argyll & Bute Housing Market Update – September 2015

Argyll & Bute Housing Market Update – September 2015 The state of the housing market is generally defined by two key criteria, the average house price (whether prices are up or down) and the volume of sales. It is common … Continue reading →

Housing market in Argyll & Bute today….versus the past

We’ve written a number of blogs on house prices and the state of the property & housing market in Oban and Argyll & Bute, and for this blog I thought I’d concentrate on where the market is today in Argyll … Continue reading →

Housing Market in Argyll & Bute – March 2015

In our last house prices blog we relayed that the Registers of Scotland were reporting that the rise in prices in Argyll and Bute were some of the highest in Scotland, and this was perhaps a contributing factor in that the … Continue reading →

A few words on the changes to taxation on property purchases

As you’ll probably be aware, a change to the way that property purchases are taxed has just been implemented (as of the 4th of December) which aims to address the ‘jump’ in taxation at the various price band thresholds. You … Continue reading →