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Overseas buyers snap up luxury Scottish properties

speculators are snapping up bargains in Scotland's luxury property market as one in four of homes worth £1 million and more sold this year were bought by investors from outside the country.

Savills estate agent said the good value offered by the prime housing market in comparison to the rest of the UK, especially London, was luring overseas buyers, particularly from Hong Kong, China, Russia and Canada.

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