Shows the change from 2014 when there was talk of an Aberdeen weighting as it was so expensive
The house is cheap, the man-sized seagull defences are not.
No mention that it used to be 2nd most expensive outside of London a decade ago and the market has largely collapsed in Aberdeen… Great journalism as ever
Aye, what a crap piece! I and a majority of my friends in our 30s got done royally, we all bought around 2015 and now have 50 k plus negative equity. It has been a total nightmare for the few of us who have tried to move away.
God I fucking hate the hypernormalisation of the pRoPertY laDdEr and the idea of housing as a financial asset that leads to articles and mindsets like this. Just another lovely knock-on effect of capitalism and neoliberalism.
I get it, renting is stressful, expensive, and generally shit (and has been for decades before it got even more stressful, expensive, and shit and started to affect the middle classes and therefore finally became a problem worth reporting and acting on politically), but the solution has always been to create more social housing for rent, not expect people to become homeowners by default, especially when the market for both renting and buying is so irreparably fucked.
Aberdeen City, maybe. The surrounding suburbs in Aberdeenshire, maybe not.
“in a depression simulator called aberdeen, housing is only £200,000”
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Shows the change from 2014 when there was talk of an Aberdeen weighting as it was so expensive
The house is cheap, the man-sized seagull defences are not.
No mention that it used to be 2nd most expensive outside of London a decade ago and the market has largely collapsed in Aberdeen… Great journalism as ever
Aye, what a crap piece! I and a majority of my friends in our 30s got done royally, we all bought around 2015 and now have 50 k plus negative equity. It has been a total nightmare for the few of us who have tried to move away.
God I fucking hate the hypernormalisation of the pRoPertY laDdEr and the idea of housing as a financial asset that leads to articles and mindsets like this. Just another lovely knock-on effect of capitalism and neoliberalism.
I get it, renting is stressful, expensive, and generally shit (and has been for decades before it got even more stressful, expensive, and shit and started to affect the middle classes and therefore finally became a problem worth reporting and acting on politically), but the solution has always been to create more social housing for rent, not expect people to become homeowners by default, especially when the market for both renting and buying is so irreparably fucked.
Aberdeen City, maybe. The surrounding suburbs in Aberdeenshire, maybe not.
“in a depression simulator called aberdeen, housing is only £200,000”
Downside is that it’s Aberdeen