On 2 Sep 2004 08:55:32 -0700, (MBQ) wrote:

The competition is in multiple potential purchasers bidding for the
same property.

That's a lottery, not competition.

we're all agreed that Scottish OO figures are just playing silly
buggers with the true valuation,

We're not.

Yes, we are. Even The Scotsman said so. Here is another quote from
that article: "One solution would be to adopt the English system of
open bidding, which at least has the advantage of every potential
buyer seeing the market price they have to beat."

See? Other people see it the way I do.

it's as if everyone is driving blind
down a foggy motorway in the wrong direction.

I think you are the one trying to swim against the current.

Salmon do it all the time.

MM