In message , Owain
writes
"Ian White" wrote
| Mike Mitchell wrote:
| Now why is it that you ignore the one in four Scots who agree with my
| view that the system is flawed?
| Here's a different interpretation of the same survey data:
| Everybody recognises that both the Scottish and the English house-buying
| systems are flawed, in their different ways, and both subject to abuse.
| But a massive majority of Scottish housebuyers (3 out of 4) do *not*
| want to change to the English system.

And "in hotspots such as Edinburgh and Glasgow" why would the English
system, which gazumping, gazundering and chains, be any better?

The simple fact is that if there aren't enough houses to meet demand then
some people are going to end up disappointed.


And, invariably, when buyers feel hard done by, they tend to complain
with the support of the media.

In general, when sellers are hard done by, it is usually accepted as
"the norm", or market conditions.

I'm not sure how this element of our culture, in relation to property
transactions, has come about.

Owain



--
Richard Faulkner