Capital's a hotspot as million-pound home sales double in Scotland

THE number of properties in Scotland selling for at least £1 million more than doubled last year, with the Capital remaining the hotspot, new figures reveal.

Sales of the exclusive homes across the country soared by 138 per cent to 343 in 2007, according to the Bank of Scotland research.

The million-pound property market north of the Border grew faster than anywhere else in Britain last year.

Edinburgh remained the hotspot for top-end sales, accounting for 43 per cent of all Scottish million-pound property sales.

Buyers in the Capital snapped up 148 properties for that price last year.

David Marshall, business analyst at the Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre, said that buyers from England were boosting the market.