House prices through roof

THEY are the leafy, upmarket areas most of us dream of living in – but only the very well-heeled ever will.

Property website Zoopla has revealed the most expensive streets north of the Border, and Edinburgh once again takes top spot.

Whitehouse Terrace, near the Morningside area, is in first place, with an average selling price of £2,042,925.

In second place is Balmoral Court in Auchterarder, Perthshire, near Gleneagles, with an average of £1.58million

Succoth Place, in Edinburgh’s Murrayfield is third, with an average value of £1.467million.

Six of the ten most expensive streets were in Edinburgh. The value of homes in Whitehouse Terrace has climbed more than £500,000 since 2013.

According to Zoopla’s 2016 Rich List, there are 12,418 streets in Britain where the average property value is £1million or over. The country also has 660,924 property millionaires, with Scotland taking only 1.28 per cent of that number at 8,486.

Zoopla spokesman Lawrence Hall said: ‘According to our data, the average property in Edinburgh has gone up in value by 4.76 per cent to £271,653 over the past 12 months... an average property value of almost £100,000 more than in Glasgow.’