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CITY REGION BOUNDARIES STUDY
APPENDIX A HOUSING MARKET AREAS
A.1 Two indicators of the housing market have been considered: house moves and house prices.
House Moves from Cities
A.2 Figure A1 shows the number of house moves from Glasgow to each Council area. By showing numbers of moves there is an inherent bias towards larger Councils, which is perhaps why Edinburgh and Fife are more dominant in the East. The relatively high ranking for Stirling is therefore of note given its relatively low population.
Figure A1 - House Moves from Glasgow
A.3 If the moves per head of population are plotted for each Council area the general pattern is similar as shown in Figure A2. The relative importance of Councils with large populations such as Edinburgh falls and for smaller Councils the impacts appears greater. The population weighting is more useful for considering how important Glasgow is for each unitary Council than for defining how important the Councils are for Glasgow.
Figure A2 - House Moves by Council Population from Glasgow
A.4 Figures A3, A4 and A5 show house moves from Glasgow to each Council without the population weighting as this is probably more useful for identifying the city region boundaries.
A.5 The same scale has been used in Figures A1, A3, A4, and A5 to allow comparisons between the impact of the cities on rural areas such as Highland.
Figure A3 - House Moves from Edinburgh
A.6 It can be seen that the number of movers from Edinburgh to Fife is nearly as great as from Edinburgh to Midlothian, and there are nearly twice as many moves from Edinburgh to Highland compared with Glasgow to Highland, despite there being a larger total number of moves from Glasgow.
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