A 2.1% Drop for North-East property prices
January 31, 2019
Scotland has mostly been reporting fairly solid figures on property prices with a fair bit of optimism in the air over any negative downward trends, though a recent news report headlines with ‘North-east property prices drop by up to 2.1% according to new figures‘ and highlights that house prices are down 1.8% in Q4 of 2018.
Aberdeen house prices have the 1.8% decline figure though Inverurie and Ellon reported a 2.1% fall.
Full report on the Evening Express website.
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