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8th March 2010

Last week has been a joy really with the weather, glorious blue skies were the order of the day mostly, this week is warmer but the blue skies have disappeared!!. Just hope that's the snow over for the year!!  Aberdeen City is really not getting it's act together about filling pot holes and clearing up sand from the snow, cars wheels are getting damaged because of the size of the holes!! We seem to have a proliferation of "For Sale" and "To Let" on Union Street it really is looking sad and neglected for the sake of the new Union Square shopping centre.   Although the new shopping centre in Market Street is proving to be a bit of a log jam as there is just too much traffic in one spot, which has got worse during Christmas and New Year shopping.

Aberdeen Football Club have grabbed all the headlines for the wrong reasons in their last three games all lost at home. It was marginally better on Saturday when the got a draw with Hamilton but I think that they can kiss top 6 good by if they don't improve their scoring rate. 

Our winter fours competition at Murcar was on last saturday but who knows if we will get our last week played this weekend. Of course it has been decimated by the weather recently we have only played approximately half of the games we should have.  In the springtime If your looking for a testing challenge to your game then you won't find many better examples of links golf with great scenery of our sandy coastline than Murcar

Aberdeen Property Market;   Rental prices certainly  leveled off and decreased in some property types but they still remain fairly constant across the board. 2 Bedroom properties seem to be the hardest to find as it makes it cheaper to rent a shared property. Hopefully with the oil prices getting stronger Aberdeen will probably buck the trend of the rest of the UK and keep business flowing. The installation of the HMO licenses have also put pressure on the students finding suitable accommodation.   The market for HMO properties is still roaring away! with properties not staying on the market for more than a few days and prices for these properties are increasing all the time.

All prospective tenants out there should know that our minimum requirements to letting a property are that you provide the rent!! a deposit equivalent to the first months rent, and a £55 administration fee, we do require some sort of reference (Previous Landlords or Work Reference).

If you would like to view any of these properties below please do not hesitate to contact our office.

Happy Property Hunting!!  

Richard

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