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A little gloom ... but it's not all doom

While there has been a 20% fall in the number of homes changing hands in Scotland, the price of property is still going up writes David Leask

THE for sale' signs tell their own story: they go up more than they come down. Scottish streets are now lined with them, tens of thousands of little plastic boards saying something is wrong with the housing market.