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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Craig Meighan

Eye-watering house prices see first-time buyers priced out of housing market

Sophie Cooney and Chris Stevenson have both found the Scottish housing market a tough place to traverse

IN the 1970s the average Scottish house price was just £3617. In the 1980s it was more than £15,000, by the 1990s it was around £35,000 and come the year 2000 it had shot up to more than £51,000.

Jump to 2022, and that figure has reached an eye-watering £180,000 – about six times the average yearly income of Scots in full-time work.

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