The huge increase in the sale price of a flat in Glasgow's southside has helped to perfectly sum up the current property boom the city is experiencing.
The increase concerns a flat which was sold on Calder Street in the Govanhill area in November for £125,000, which is an eye-watering £54,000 more than the price of £71,000 the flat fetched went it went on the market back in December of 2020.
The sale price change was highlighted in a recent tweet captioned: "Entirely normal and very well market for one-bed flats in Govanhill", which showed the last two known sale prices for the property on December 9, 2020 and November 19, 2021.
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As you might expect, the tweet sparked many comments from people airing their concerns about the extortionate year-on-year sale price achieved for the flat.
One person simply responded "grim", to which the author of the tweet wrote: "This one is in my block. About half my close is Housing Association and the other half is has been consistently empty of tenants for a year while various parties speculate and buy up and 'flip' like this. I need to stop checking these numbers for my blood pressure."
Another echoed the sentiment, writing: "On CALDER STREET?! That's beyond grim."
And it was followed by another response which read: "Think I had the home report for this one, if so it's went for over £20k over. Grim."
It comes after new figures revealed that the average sale price of a home in Glasgow has increased almost 10 per cent in one year.
According to the UK House Price Index, the average price of a property in our city in November 2021 was £164,382, a 9.6% increase on the £149,927 figure recorded in November 2020.
