Million pound homes sell faster in Edinburgh than anywhere else in the UK outside of Cambridge, a report has found.

Properties in the capital worth over £1m take an average of just 53 days to be snapped up by a buyer - 23 days faster than last year and almost twice as fast as the national average of 99 days.

Scotland as a whole is one of the fastest regions to sell a £1m-plus home, with a typical property going in just 94 days, 19 days faster than twelve months ago. In contrast, it takes sellers in Wales 174 days to sell a top-end property - the slowest in Britain.

Edinburgh fastest place to sell Â£1 million homes